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UK Column News Podcast 19th February 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the nineteenth of February twenty twenty five,
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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 today at in
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Speaker 1: the studio is Charles Mallett and by video link we
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Speaker 1: have Vanessa Billy and Sandy Adams. Welcome to the program everyone,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to begin with World War of course,
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Speaker 1: because the Secretary of State for War, John Healey, delivered
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Speaker 1: a speech at the Institute for Government yesterday to announce
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Speaker 1: the biggest defense shakeup in fifty years. So we should
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Speaker 1: all be happy about that. And this is to make
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Speaker 1: sure the UK is war ready. And the biggest of
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Speaker 1: the biggest announcements was perhaps the complete concentration of wartime
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Speaker 1: power into the hands of four incompetents led by Admiral Radikin,
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Speaker 1: chief of the Defense Staff. It has to be said
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Speaker 1: that our secondary state for war's delivery should be bottled
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Speaker 1: as a cure for insomnia. But nonetheless, if we can
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Speaker 1: bear it, let's have a listen to a little of
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Speaker 1: what he had to say.
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Speaker 2: So today I'm here to declare that investment in defense
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Speaker 2: will be matched by reform. First We're introducing clear points
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Speaker 2: of accountability at every level within UK Defense, starting at
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Speaker 2: the top with four new senior leaders, four leaders who
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Speaker 2: report to me as Defense Secretary and my ministerial team
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Speaker 2: at the central point of accountability to the British people
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Speaker 2: and to the British public Parliament. The Chief of the
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Speaker 2: Defense Staff, who, for the first time since this role
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Speaker 2: was created, now commands the service Chiefs, who will be
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Speaker 2: the head of a newly established military strategic headquarters responsible
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Speaker 2: for force design and war planning across our integrated force.
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Speaker 2: The Permanent Secretary, our principal accounting officer, who will run
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Speaker 2: a leaner, more agile Department of State with more policy
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Speaker 2: muscle to lead arguments across Whitehall and with allies. We'll
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Speaker 2: revamp the senior roles to elevate those into policy makers
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Speaker 2: with broad portfolios and powerful mandates. Third, our new Armaments
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Speaker 2: Director who will fix procurement and drive growth and I'll
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Speaker 2: come back to the detail of the National Armament's Director
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Speaker 2: in a moment. And Fourthly, our Chief of Defense Nuclear
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Speaker 2: who will continue to lead and deliver the national nuclear
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Speaker 2: enterprise within the recently established ring fence and freedoms. This
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Speaker 2: new quad will lead a defense which is more concentrated
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Speaker 2: on war fighting, readiness and under terrance, and this new
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Speaker 2: quad will be up and running from the thirty five
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Speaker 2: of March.
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Speaker 3: So what do you big of that, Charles right, he
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Speaker 3: sounds rather like a packet of those fridge magnets where
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Speaker 3: you're confined to being able to use only the same
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Speaker 3: words regardless of what speech you're delivering. But I think
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Speaker 3: on the well, certainly the earlier bit readiness to war,
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Speaker 3: I think there's a sort of willful straying away from
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Speaker 3: from the more important issue, which is not necessarily readiness
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Speaker 3: for war. Because it would be easy to declare that
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Speaker 3: you might consider yourselves to be ready. It's far more opposite,
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Speaker 3: really to be considering whether or not war is appropriate, sensible,
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Speaker 3: or in any way going to improve anybody's life. And
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Speaker 3: the answer to all of those I think would have to.
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Speaker 1: Be no, absolutely no. He was then later in the
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Speaker 1: speech discussing the need to rearm as have a listen.
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Speaker 2: So, sitting alongside the Permanent Secretary and the Chief of
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Speaker 2: Defense Staff, they'll execute a twenty billion pound plus budget
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Speaker 2: to build and sustain our national armed arsenal because at
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Speaker 2: this time we must rearm Britain, and I see this
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Speaker 2: as a new FOOTS one hundred company within the mod tasked,
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Speaker 2: if you like, with getting the very best capabilities needed
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Speaker 2: into the hands of our frontline forces, delivering on our
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Speaker 2: defense industrial strategy to create more defense jobs, more defense
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Speaker 2: apprenticeships in every region and nation across the UK.
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Speaker 1: Now, of course he was completely silent about why we
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Speaker 1: have to rearm Britain and having spent our entire of
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Speaker 1: our our arsenal on helping Russia train what is possibly
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Speaker 1: not the most effective fighting force in the world. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you agree with that, but I
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Speaker 1: mean we have effectively trained the Russian military in a
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Speaker 1: way that we haven't trained the Ukrainians, because actually we have.
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Speaker 1: Do we have anybody Charles in the military at the
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Speaker 1: moment that has the experience to properly train the Ukrainians
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Speaker 1: that has what sorry, proper experience of this type of thing?
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Speaker 1: I see, Well, we shouldn't do no indeed, so anyway,
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Speaker 1: but what's clear is that we're now officially apparently on
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Speaker 1: a war footing. We need to make sure more people's
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Speaker 1: lives and livelihoods are reliant on that war footing in
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Speaker 1: order to maintain public support for the war policy. But
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm just being too cynical about that. But this
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Speaker 1: all follows the Paris get together, as European leaders are
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Speaker 1: flilling around trying to work out what to do about
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Speaker 1: Trump and Keir Starmer's article and telegraph here where he
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Speaker 1: declared his intention to send British troops to Ukraine openly
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Speaker 1: for the first time. So he said, first, Europe must
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Speaker 1: step up further to meet demands of its own security.
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Speaker 1: So just what Brian was talking about on Monday is
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Speaker 1: what we've been talking about for many, many years. But
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Speaker 1: then he went on to say, so I'm heading to
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Speaker 1: Paris with a very clear message for our European friends.
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Speaker 1: We've got to show we are truly serious about our
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Speaker 1: own defense and bearing our own burden. We've talked about
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Speaker 1: it for too long, and President Trump is right to
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Speaker 1: demand that we get on with it. So, as I say,
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Speaker 1: Brian reminded us of this as Monday on Monday. It's
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Speaker 1: a long standing policy objective. It's one which successive British
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Speaker 1: regimes have been encouraging alongside the European Commission and NATO,
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Speaker 1: but which many your EU member states have been pushing
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Speaker 1: back on as hard as they can because it represents
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Speaker 1: perhaps a step too far for their own national sovereignty.
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Speaker 1: The question is if the Trump effect can push it
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Speaker 1: over the line, and that remains to be seen. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: Starmer went on to say, and bearing sorry, we did
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Speaker 1: mention this bearing our own burden. So anyway, it is
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Speaker 1: interesting that getting back to uk boo boots on the
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Speaker 1: ground for a second, what would the role be? And
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Speaker 1: perhaps we'll get a hint from this article, which is
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Speaker 1: about a speech given almost exactly a year ago, Ambassador
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Speaker 1: James Karayuki giving a speech to the Special Committee on
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Speaker 1: Peacekeeping Operations and the speech entitled peacekeeping is one of
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Speaker 1: the UN's most valuable tools to support global piece of security.
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Speaker 1: But by coincidence, this was just published yesterday, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not clear why it was published yesterday, so I'm maybe
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Speaker 1: adding two and two together and getting five. But it
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Speaker 1: seems that the timing of that particular speech is indicative
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Speaker 1: of what we might be viewing our role to be
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. But in parallel with the EU gathering, of course,
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Speaker 1: the United States and Russia met for their peace talks
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Speaker 1: and read yesterday in response to a question from Russian
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Speaker 1: television About the impression that he got of the Americans,
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Speaker 1: Sergei Lavrov said, we engaged in good, positive negotiations. The
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Speaker 1: atmosphere was exceedingly positive. A positive atmosphere is cultivated by
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Speaker 1: positive individuals, so it was all very positive apparently. But
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Speaker 1: the question is how with the Russians view Star Wars
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Speaker 1: deployment British troops as a peace keeping force. Let's have
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Speaker 1: a listen to what had to say.
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Speaker 4: The Americans would like to see what countries are ready
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Speaker 4: to provide troops and today at today's meeting, we explained
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Speaker 4: and said that we noted very well that President Trump,
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Speaker 4: in several of his speeches, the first among Western leaders,
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Speaker 4: had said many times that drawing Ukraine into NATO is
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Speaker 4: one of the main reasons of what is happening, that
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Speaker 4: it's one of Biden's biggest mistakes, and had Trump been
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Speaker 4: president back then, he wouldn't have let that happen. In
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Speaker 4: this connection, we explained to our counterparts that President Putin
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Speaker 4: had many times underscored that expansion and Ukraine's entrance is
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Speaker 4: a direct threat to the interests of the Russian Federation,
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Speaker 4: a direct threat to our sovereignty and for that reason,
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Speaker 4: we said today deployment armed troops from NATO countries under
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Speaker 4: any different flag, under an EU flag or under national
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Speaker 4: flags doesn't change anything. It's unacceptable to US.
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Speaker 1: So that's pretty clear. But in the meantime, Legacy media
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Speaker 1: has been going nuts over all this chaos. Their world
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Speaker 1: is falling apart apparently. But they are finally acknowledging something
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Speaker 1: which Patrick mentioned a couple of weeks ago, that Zelensky
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Speaker 1: is perhaps for the job. So here's the BBC. Zelensky
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Speaker 1: could fall as price of peace as US and Russia
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Speaker 1: agree more talks. The question is is it London Forum
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Speaker 1: or is that one immigrant too far for the British people.
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Speaker 1: That remains to be seen. But I don't know what
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Speaker 1: your thoughts are on that chaste.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, maybe not specifically on that, but I
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Speaker 3: think the issue of peacekeeping is something that seems that
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Speaker 3: anything kir Starmer said is without qualification. He has no
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Speaker 3: practical experience of this. He's supported by a Chief Defense
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Speaker 3: Staff who has very little operational experience and doesn't understand
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Speaker 3: war fighting. The issue on peacekeeping is whether or not
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Speaker 3: has the support of the Home nation. So has Zelenski
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Speaker 3: actually invited Starma to make such a proposal, and if not,
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Speaker 3: that's a problem. But if this is not to be
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Speaker 3: done under a NATO banner, and that's exactly where Ukraine
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Speaker 3: and Zelensky might take issue, because it would suggest that
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Speaker 3: membership of NATO is in fact still a distant prospect,
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Speaker 3: which is not what they want. But of course it
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Speaker 3: does still enable the uk the United States everybody else
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Speaker 3: to continue to use Ukraine as a proxy should they
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Speaker 3: so choose. So, in effect, this would give the United
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Speaker 3: States and the United Kingdom and anybody else that wants
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Speaker 3: to join in the ability to have a sort of controlling,
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Speaker 3: controlling oversight over the very lucrative business of reconstructing in
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Speaker 3: enormous inverted commas Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles Vanessa. Let me welcome to the program.
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Speaker 1: If you want to comment, I know this, please do.
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Speaker 1: But what is? But then come on to what is
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Speaker 1: the Ibraham Ship.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I'll probably keep to extra because I honestly, I'm
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Speaker 5: so flabbergasted by Britain's I don't know what to call
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Speaker 5: it anymore. I mean, it's just idiocy. But anyway, let's
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Speaker 5: come on to the madness that's ongoing in this region,
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Speaker 5: and this is something that I wanted to draw people's
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Speaker 5: attention to because at UK column we've been talking for
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Speaker 5: a long time about what the direction of travelers, what
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Speaker 5: the end game is, and this lays it out very nicely.
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Speaker 5: This is a newly formed since October seventh, the Coalition
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Speaker 5: for Regional Security, and basically this was established about a
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Speaker 5: year after October the seventh and represents, sorry a wide
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Speaker 5: and diverse group of public figures and opinion leaders in
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Speaker 5: the security, diplomacy, business, high tech and research field who
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Speaker 5: joined together to ensure the security of the State of
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Speaker 5: Israel through the promotion of the Abraham Shield Plan. And
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Speaker 5: of course we know that that's an extension of the
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Speaker 5: Abraham Accords that were established by Trump's son in law
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Speaker 5: Jared Kushner back under Trump's first administration. And then just
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Speaker 5: looking through at the about US section, with crisis comes
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Speaker 5: opportunity a new regional order in the Middle East, and
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Speaker 5: of course this is the new Middle East that has
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Speaker 5: been spoken about for decades, even going back to the
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Speaker 5: Clean Break Doctrine in nineteen ninety seven. But I really
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Speaker 5: this document is quite shocking in how clearly it lays
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Speaker 5: out the plans of the Abraham alliance, which of course
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Speaker 5: will come onto but is headed by the US and Israel,
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Speaker 5: and clearly Trump has been brought in to carry this
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Speaker 5: plan through. So the State of Israel has been dealing
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Speaker 5: with seven different fronts that form the Iranian Of course,
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Speaker 5: no other no one else has any problem with the
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Speaker 5: State of Israel in the region at all, the Iranian
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Speaker 5: ring of fire that seeks to destroy Israel. And then
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Speaker 5: moving on, we have also the new regional order, and
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Speaker 5: this is why Iran turned Gaza into Hamas, southern Lebanon
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Speaker 5: into Hezbola, Stan built militias in Iraq and Syria, and
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Speaker 5: strengthened the hutis Aka and Srula in Yemen. It is
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Speaker 5: why Iran is trying to infiltrate Jordan, the West Bank
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Speaker 5: and Egypt, and I've paraff raised a little bit there
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Speaker 5: while at the same time implementing its nuclear program. So
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Speaker 5: this is the knob of the matter. Of course, it's
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Speaker 5: always been the biggest problem for Israel that Iran may
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Speaker 5: develop some kind of nuclear capability, while of course Israel
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Speaker 5: has clandestinely been producing its own nuclear capability for decades
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Speaker 5: without the knowledge even of the United States. So if
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Speaker 5: we actually go through the plan itself. As I said,
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Speaker 5: it lays it out very clearly. This is part one
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Speaker 5: those six steps to the plan, closing the front in Gaza,
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Speaker 5: which is very much what we said when Trump was elected,
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Speaker 5: when the so called ceasefire was brought in, it was
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Speaker 5: very clear that that was the closing of this file
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Speaker 5: and the pivot to the next stage, returning all hostages,
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Speaker 5: establishing a technocratic transitional government in Guiser and a regionally
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Speaker 5: led de hamersification. Try and say that quickly, and you're
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Speaker 5: getting the idea of the actual lexicon used in this plan,
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Speaker 5: which for me is absolutely disgusting. It's reducing the Palestinians,
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Speaker 5: the political national identity of the Palestinians down to these
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Speaker 5: derogatory terms. And so part one again closing the front
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Speaker 5: in Gaza, returning all hostages, Arab police forces, Western reconstruction package.
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Speaker 5: So it's harnessing the normalized Arab states under the Abraham
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Speaker 5: Accords to police Gaza and have military presence in Gaza,
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Speaker 5: and the US and the West to actually rebuild Garza.
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Speaker 5: Of course we know that the vision for that is
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Speaker 5: this free trade zone, this kind of due biification of
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Speaker 5: Gaza and of Palestine and the theft of Palestinian gas.
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Speaker 5: This has already pretty much been approved by the uaevoy
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Speaker 5: to Washington claims no alternative to ethnic cleansing of Gaza,
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Speaker 5: so he's already put his stamp on the Trump fake
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Speaker 5: Gaza plan. But Saudi Arabia is also sort of a
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Speaker 5: little bit coming forward now. About a year ago, even
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Speaker 5: while Palestinians were being genocided by the Zionists, the Saudi
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Speaker 5: Crown Prince said publicly that he personally doesn't care about
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Speaker 5: the Palestinian issue. And back in I think it was
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, so one year before that, on the
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Speaker 5: September the eleventh, twenty twenty three, he publicly stated, this
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Speaker 5: is Saudi's war, this is my war. I am not
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Speaker 5: going to die until I see the Middle East at
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Speaker 5: the forefront of the world. So the battle lines are
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Speaker 5: being very clearly drawn, and within this document that is
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Speaker 5: made even even clearer to a large extent. Now, this
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Speaker 5: is fascinating. We've been talking about the correlation between what
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Speaker 5: the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians for years
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Speaker 5: and what has been happening in the West with CBDC,
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Speaker 5: central digital surveillance and so on, and guess what it's
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Speaker 5: actually now included in the Abraham Shield, still under the
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Speaker 5: section of zero one cash in the Gaza strip will
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Speaker 5: be abolished, zero cash, so we don't even have kind
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Speaker 5: of zero everything else. We now have zero cash and
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Speaker 5: an advanced mechanism of monetary supervision will be implemented. So
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Speaker 5: you can guess what that is. If you're not going
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Speaker 5: to submit to occupation, if you're not going to accept
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Speaker 5: Israeli oppression, if you're not going to accept living in
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Speaker 5: a concentration camp reduced even further down from what Gaza
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Speaker 5: already is, then you won't receive any cash. That's basically
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Speaker 5: the bottom line there. And then I think if we
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Speaker 5: move on to the second section, implementing and enforcing the
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Speaker 5: agreement in Southern Lebanon, So Lebanon then is getting pulled
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Speaker 5: into this entire plan through a zero violation. Now, since
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Speaker 5: the ceasefire that came into effect on the twenty sixth
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Speaker 5: of January, Israel has violated that more than fourteen hundred
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Speaker 5: times one four hundred times. And actually since they agreed
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Speaker 5: to some degree to withdraw from Lebanon on the eighteenth,
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Speaker 5: they've already today assassinated a mayor of one of the
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Speaker 5: villages in the south on the border with Israel targeting
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Speaker 5: his car with a drone. So if we're talking about
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Speaker 5: zero violations and very important strengthening the Lebanese army, so
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Speaker 5: this becomes very clear that where the Lebanese Army has
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Speaker 5: been pulled in to replace Hesbular in the south of Lebanon,
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Speaker 5: now Israel is clearly saying Israel is going to be
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Speaker 5: strengthened the Lebanese army. So what does this mean? The
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Speaker 5: Lebanese Army becomes a proxy of Israel in Lebanese territory
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Speaker 5: on the border and occupying the border towns of the
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Speaker 5: southern Lebanese people. Right, And because it's not only has
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Speaker 5: Balah who live in the south, there are Christians, there
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Speaker 5: are Sunnis, there are multiple sex and faith down in
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Speaker 5: southern Lebanon also. And remember that the US has already
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Speaker 5: been sponsoring the Lebanese Army in order to keep it
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Speaker 5: absolutely toothless and unable to respond to Israel anyway. Zero
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Speaker 5: three part of the Shield Plan following the fall of
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Speaker 5: the Asad regime, harnessing regional forces to stabilize Syria and
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Speaker 5: turn it into a buffer against the Iranian axis. So
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Speaker 5: this has become clear now why Syria was It was
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Speaker 5: absolutely essential that Syria should fall. It also talks about
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Speaker 5: continued occupation of the Goland territories, but that of course
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Speaker 5: also means the territory in southern Syria that it now
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Speaker 5: has annexed and it is busy building military posts increase
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Speaker 5: now up to more than nine. It will prevent the
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Speaker 5: arms coming into Lubanon to the resistance if they want
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Speaker 5: to defend themselves against the Israeli violations of any Ceaspor agreement,
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Speaker 5: and they're going to enlist this is the actual wording
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Speaker 5: of the document US administration to prevent Iran regaining a
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Speaker 5: presence inside Syria. And they will work with Turkey, which
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Speaker 5: they consider to be central to keeping order, and of
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Speaker 5: course that has been in place since nineteen ninety three
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Speaker 5: with the Security Accord between Turkey and Israel, where they
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Speaker 5: can use their Turkish territory to spy on the regional countries.
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Speaker 5: And then if we move on to zero four, which
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Speaker 5: is basically to expand and deepen the Moderate regional coalition,
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Speaker 5: that's what I was talking about. The Gulf states, the
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Speaker 5: Sunni Islamic states predominantly that are very much of course,
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Speaker 5: under the control of the US and the British, returning
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Speaker 5: to a fast track normalization with Saudi Arabia and expanding
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Speaker 5: the Abraham Accord. So what does this mean? Of course,
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Speaker 5: it means greater Israel. It means Israel is going to
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Speaker 5: expand through its alliances and collaboration and entrapment of those
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Speaker 5: Gulf states and other states like Jordan, for example, who
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Speaker 5: are already an Egypt, who are very much under the
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Speaker 5: control of the West and Israel. And zero five, which
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Speaker 5: is basically the Blockade Plan as they call it, implementing
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Speaker 5: a blockade plan against Iran and preventing its nuclearization. So
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Speaker 5: again we're back to the hub of the issue. And
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Speaker 5: then moving onto this is where the wording just becomes extraordinary.
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Speaker 5: The last section of the document an Israeli declaration of gradual, responsible,
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Speaker 5: secure path of separation from the Palestinians within a decade.
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Speaker 5: So gone is the two state solution that doesn't even
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Speaker 5: exist in this document. One state solution is in the bin.
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Speaker 5: Two state solution is gone, and instead you have part
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Speaker 5: of a comprehensive regional agreement to basically squeeze the Palestinians
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Speaker 5: out and to give Israel supremacy in the region. And
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Speaker 5: then moving on again, we have the again back on
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Speaker 5: the separation issue. So they say, with the implementation of
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Speaker 5: reforms and the fulfillment of the conditions of separation, the
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Speaker 5: Palestinians will join the Abraham Alliance. So basically, when they've
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Speaker 5: been indoctrinated, when they been forced out of any form
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Speaker 5: of resistance and basically declawed from a Palestinian political identity
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Speaker 5: or even a national identity, freedom for Israel to bomb.
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Speaker 5: Whenever they feel that there is any kind of infraction,
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Speaker 5: a complete demilitarization, they will be allowed to join the
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Speaker 5: Abraham Alliance, which will prevent the infiltration of Iranian influence
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Speaker 5: on Israel's borders, not Hammerstan, rather Abrahamistan. I mean, this
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Speaker 5: is a very chilling document. Of course, the resistance are
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Speaker 5: not going to allow this to happen. The Yemenis have
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Speaker 5: already come out publicly to say that if Israel or
23:44
Speaker 5: the US try to displace the Guardians, they will actually
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Speaker 5: directly enter into conflict with both countries. And so we're
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Speaker 5: really heading if we follow the direction and travel, and
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Speaker 5: we have been saying at UK column that this is coming,
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Speaker 5: we're heading for a very dangerous precipice of regional and
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Speaker 5: potentially global war.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Fanessa. But and on top of that, no,
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Speaker 1: it's never too far away that the net zerial CBDC
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Speaker 1: technocredit policy is there as well, which is quite incredible.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us on to Sandy. Welcome to the program, Sandy,
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Speaker 1: and we're kicking off. You were talking last week about
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Speaker 1: the devolution situation in the UK with regional mayors and
24:34
Speaker 1: so on, and well, Plymouth has led US City to
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Speaker 1: declare that they would like a directly elected mayor and
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Speaker 1: they're going to be holding a referendum apparently, but there's
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Speaker 1: not universal support for it.
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Speaker 6: No, this is quite an interesting story. We have these
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Speaker 6: two characters to labor and PS, Luke Pollard from Sutton
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Speaker 6: and Devenport and Fred Thomas from more View, and they
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Speaker 6: slammed proposals for the directly elected mayor to be brought
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Speaker 6: into their council because you know, they're saying, oh, you know,
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Speaker 6: we don't like this level, this second layer of that
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Speaker 6: they don't need, which is going to be very costly.
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Speaker 6: I mean that the referendum itself is going to cost
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Speaker 6: I think it's four hundred and ten thousand for the referendum,
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Speaker 6: and the mayor's wages will be eighty thousand per year
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Speaker 6: and they reckon the staffing cost with the wages and
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Speaker 6: the office will come to one point five million a year.
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Speaker 6: So and of course all the taxpayers will be footing
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Speaker 6: this bill. And you know, we can't let them off
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Speaker 6: the hook because I don't think they're being entirely honest.
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Speaker 6: They're saying that this is a political move, you know,
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Speaker 6: but actually you know, they're never going to really tell
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Speaker 6: the electorate what's really going on. But they're opposing it
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Speaker 6: from a political stand point, not really from an understanding
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Speaker 6: or or letting letting people know about the global consequences
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Speaker 6: of this, which we we we do know, which we
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Speaker 6: spoke about last week. But you know that there are
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Speaker 6: areas that have scrapped these local mayors. There's Bristol, Torbay, Stoke, Hartlepool,
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Speaker 6: Liverpool and they've abandoned these these plans to take on
26:25
Speaker 6: these directly elected mayors. So there's reasons to you know,
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Speaker 6: to to be you know, to be cheerful about this,
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Speaker 6: you know, in our own way, because we know where
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Speaker 6: this is leading to. But more people hopefully will be
26:41
Speaker 6: understanding that this is a very costly, costly thing, and
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Speaker 6: we don't really want it. Yeah. So that's that's quite
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Speaker 6: that's quite a good, a cheerful story, a local story
26:53
Speaker 6: that they're they're actually questioning it and and saying, look,
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Speaker 6: we don't want this, yeah, which is good. Yeah. And also,
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Speaker 6: I mean I'm looking really at the that, you know,
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Speaker 6: the reasons why we can have a little bit of hope,
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Speaker 6: because I do see the there is opposition to these plans,
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Speaker 6: and you know, looking at it globally, we've got the midway,
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Speaker 6: you know, through to twenty twenty three, the Digital Compact meeting,
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Speaker 6: I mean you and admitted that only fifteen percent of
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Speaker 6: the SDGs were on track, while thirty percent had actually stalled.
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Speaker 6: And we've got you know a lot of these leaders
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Speaker 6: like Klaus Schwab really almost you know, sort of showing
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Speaker 6: concern that they're not meeting their targets. Commitments to net
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Speaker 6: zero are worth zero without the plans, policies and actions
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Speaker 6: to back it up, and we cannot afford to take
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Speaker 6: movers or late movers. You know, this is this they're
27:53
Speaker 6: clearly worried, and there's more slide on that as well.
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Speaker 6: You've got Guturas saying, if you cannot set a credible
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Speaker 6: course for net zero, you should not be in business.
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Speaker 6: They're worried, I think about the businesses actually getting on
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Speaker 6: board with this, because the businesses are late. You know,
28:14
Speaker 6: the whole stakeholder capital capitalism thing needs businesses to get involved,
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Speaker 6: and a lot of them are falling short on their
28:22
Speaker 6: net zero commitments. And then we've got this. Oh, then
28:25
Speaker 6: we've got the online harms, you know, stuff that they're
28:29
Speaker 6: really worried about. They're really worried about people's freedom of speech,
28:32
Speaker 6: people speaking up against any of this. The spread of
28:35
Speaker 6: hatred and lies online is causing grave harm to our world. Misinformation,
28:40
Speaker 6: disinformation and hate speech, a fueling prejudice, violence, exacerbating divisions
28:44
Speaker 6: and conflicts, demonizing minorities, and compromising the integrity of elections. Well,
28:50
Speaker 6: they've got to fight the media who are calling all
28:54
Speaker 6: of this out. So you know, we've got we've got some.
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Speaker 6: We realize that we're racking their cages a bit now.
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Speaker 6: The other thing that's happened this week is, I mean,
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Speaker 6: a lovely, wonderful woman from a council watch Eastbourne, Serena
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Speaker 6: Stanard appeared having watched UK column last week Have you
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Speaker 6: got anything to say about that mine?
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, she decided to intervene in her local
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Speaker 1: council and we've got a little bit of video. We're
29:26
Speaker 1: just going to show the first minute or so of
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Speaker 1: the video that she recorded following the council meeting, and
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Speaker 1: we're going to show a little bit of the response
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Speaker 1: from the council itself in extra. But let's just have
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Speaker 1: a listen to what she had to say about her
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Speaker 1: intervention at her local council.
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Speaker 7: Hello, and welcome to Eastbourne Council.
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Speaker 6: Watch.
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Speaker 7: Well, we're one of those councils who will be in
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Speaker 7: the first trance to experiment with Labour's devolution Bill, which
29:52
Speaker 7: also means that we don't get to vote in council
29:55
Speaker 7: elections this May. So I thought I'd go along to
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Speaker 7: a council meeting, make my and others feelings known and
30:03
Speaker 7: to put it on the record, so to speak. Unfortunately,
30:07
Speaker 7: it was only a cabinet meeting, which meant that it
30:11
Speaker 7: was Lib DEM's and not the Tories who were the
30:13
Speaker 7: ones to vote against the May elections. But I didn't
30:20
Speaker 7: know if I'd get another chance to speak in full council,
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Speaker 7: so I went for it. Anyway, there was one Tory
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Speaker 7: counselor in the public gallery, so maybe word will get
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Speaker 7: back and there's a possibility that I can speak in
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Speaker 7: a full council meeting where they will be discussing devolution again,
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Speaker 7: which will give me time to write a more considered speech.
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Speaker 7: Having written yesterday's speech, I then put on UK Column
30:48
Speaker 7: to listen before I went off to the meeting, and
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Speaker 7: up pop Sandy Adams with loads of information about devolutions.
30:57
Speaker 7: So that was the cue for me to rush off
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Speaker 7: often rewrite my speech in about half an hour. However,
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Speaker 7: it got a good reception and do listen to what
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Speaker 7: the council member for Net zero had to say.
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Speaker 1: So we'll show you what the devolution or the minister
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Speaker 1: for the council member for a net zero had to say.
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Speaker 1: An extra But sadly, this I have to say is
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Speaker 1: great because this is exactly what we hope for. We
31:27
Speaker 1: hope the information that we put out on the UK
31:29
Speaker 1: column News will be used by people who are active
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Speaker 1: in some way. That's exactly the point. And so well
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Speaker 1: done to Serena.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean fantastic, fantastic response from Serena. And as
31:43
Speaker 6: you say, this is what we're here for to give
31:45
Speaker 6: information for people to take action on that information and wonderful,
31:50
Speaker 6: wonderful news really, and she went straight into the meeting
31:54
Speaker 6: really to address the assault on democracy because of the voting,
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Speaker 6: but actually because of what she saw. She then brought
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Speaker 6: it really into the global arena about how this was
32:07
Speaker 6: brought down from Italy in nineteen ninety two to bring
32:12
Speaker 6: everything from Agenda twenty one from global to local, which
32:16
Speaker 6: was you know, itlely was in every town council. So
32:19
Speaker 6: we've had all that happening. And yeah, and she did
32:23
Speaker 6: talk about how she was absolutely furious really about the
32:27
Speaker 6: fact that the Tory Council and the other the Labor
32:31
Speaker 6: Council colluded in order for this to happen. And she said,
32:35
Speaker 6: if this is the way politics is going, then God
32:38
Speaker 6: help us, and I tend to agree.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, fantastic, Sandy, Thank you very much for that. Now,
32:45
Speaker 1: in the meantime, staying in the UK, Charles, what's happening
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Speaker 1: with homeschooling, Well.
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Speaker 3: Quite a bit, or at least so we're led to
32:53
Speaker 3: believe both the government and in particular we're going to
32:56
Speaker 3: look at the gathering momentum in the attack on and
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Speaker 3: the stigmatization of home education, which follows Ben's excellent report
33:03
Speaker 3: on the manipulation of children to promote artificial intelligence and
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Speaker 3: the dystopian virtual existence which can come with it. Now
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Speaker 3: referred to you by Mike in last Wednesday's News was
33:14
Speaker 3: the new AI playbook for the UK government. This has
33:19
Speaker 3: gone to the Department of Education, who should therefore be
33:22
Speaker 3: able to demonstrate that they know what AI is and
33:25
Speaker 3: its limitations. That comes from Principal one. Principles two and
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Speaker 3: three require the use of AI lawfully, ethically and responsibly,
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Speaker 3: as well as knowing how to use AI securely. Most importantly,
33:39
Speaker 3: perhaps educators should have meaningful human control at the right
33:44
Speaker 3: stage prescribed by Principal four. So for those in doubt
33:48
Speaker 3: about the Department for Education's motives, there is an ever
33:51
Speaker 3: increasing trend in home education, and for the autumn term
33:55
Speaker 3: last year, the government believes there to be sorry one
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Speaker 3: hundred and eleven seven hundred children in what's described as
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Speaker 3: elective home education. In the House of Commons at the moment,
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Speaker 3: there are the Children Not in School Bill and the
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Speaker 3: Children's well Being and School's Bill, both of which intend
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Speaker 3: to assume control of the lives of children on a
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Speaker 3: level hitherto not seen, and the mechanism for pushing this
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Speaker 3: agenda has been to conflate absenteeism, criminal activity, behavioral issues,
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Speaker 3: mental health concerns and the wilful abuse of children with
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Speaker 3: the practice of providing education for children in the home.
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Speaker 3: The Children's well Being and School's Bill, now at the
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Speaker 3: committee stage, is described by Education Otherwise a home education charity,
34:43
Speaker 3: as conflating home education with safeguarding risk, despite there being
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Speaker 3: no evidence that home education represents a risk to children,
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Speaker 3: and in November last year, the Permanent Undersecretary at the
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Speaker 3: Department of Sorry four Education, Stephen Morgan, said the government
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Speaker 3: will introduce compulsory children not in School registers in every
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Speaker 3: local authority in England as part of the Children's well
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Speaker 3: Being Bill. This was in response to a question as
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Speaker 3: to whether the Education Secretary will take steps to ensure
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Speaker 3: that children remain in mainstream education rather than home education.
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Speaker 3: Of interest is that this question came from Lee Anderson,
35:23
Speaker 3: an MP for Reform, indicating that party's views on liberty
35:27
Speaker 3: and freedom of choice, but during a debate on the
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Speaker 3: register at clause twenty four, Stephen Morgan doubled down and
35:33
Speaker 3: said it's necessary to have that requirement, it provides a
35:37
Speaker 3: check to ensure that home education is in the best
35:39
Speaker 3: interests of the child. Of course, what he really means
35:42
Speaker 3: is that the decision is to be taken by the
35:45
Speaker 3: state and in the interests of the state, rather than
35:47
Speaker 3: the child or the child's family, and already stated within
35:51
Speaker 3: the Government's guidance on elective home education. The Council can
35:55
Speaker 3: make an informal inquiry to check your child is getting
35:59
Speaker 3: a suitable education at home. They can serve a school
36:02
Speaker 3: attendance order if they think your child needs to be
36:05
Speaker 3: taught at school. Now, articles such as this from the
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Speaker 3: BBC create the lie the children who are not in
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Speaker 3: school should be classified as home educated. Hence the call
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Speaker 3: for further safeguarding and control mechanisms, and to go alongside
36:20
Speaker 3: the creation of this register, the bill would introduce what's
36:24
Speaker 3: called a consistent identifier for certain children. The clause that
36:28
Speaker 3: deals with it in its current form says that the
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Speaker 3: designated person considers that the inclusion of the consistent identifier
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Speaker 3: is likely to facilitate the exercise by any person of
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Speaker 3: a function of that person that relates to safeguarding or
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Speaker 3: promoting the welfare of children. If you followed that then
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Speaker 3: you'll consider that the idea of a consistent identifier. Whilst
36:50
Speaker 3: it's been around for at least a decade, it's always
36:53
Speaker 3: been contested that though a digital record, it would not
36:56
Speaker 3: have any sensitive information attached to it, as it's only
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Speaker 3: meant to be a mechanism by which children could be
37:02
Speaker 3: tracked through the system. But in the very unlikely event
37:06
Speaker 3: that it were to start as such, there can be
37:08
Speaker 3: very little doubt that it's the thin end of the
37:11
Speaker 3: wedge and brings about the normalization of everyday activities being
37:14
Speaker 3: connected to a digital record, one of the purposes of
37:17
Speaker 3: digital identity, which might's going to come more later in
37:20
Speaker 3: today's program, But in this case, how many designated persons
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Speaker 3: are not going to automatically insist that it's in the
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Speaker 3: child's best interest to be branded in such a way
37:29
Speaker 3: in order to fulfill the so called safeguarding element of
37:32
Speaker 3: their jobs. So this looks like a very short step
37:35
Speaker 3: towards the possibility of enforced state intervention supposedly in the
37:39
Speaker 3: child's best interests. We also have reports such as that
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Speaker 3: by the Youth Justice Board of for England and Wales
37:44
Speaker 3: submitted to the Education Committee inquiry into home education, which
37:49
Speaker 3: just adds fuel to the fire. And back in November
37:51
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, they wrote that the Youth Justice Board has
37:54
Speaker 3: real concerns regarding the suitability of home education for some children,
37:59
Speaker 3: particularly those who are risk of entering or who are
38:02
Speaker 3: already in the justice system. And this is really a
38:05
Speaker 3: blatant attempt to stigmatize home education by describing those who
38:09
Speaker 3: are either not at school or are involved in criminal
38:12
Speaker 3: activity as home educated. And this is how it's possible
38:15
Speaker 3: to drive the legislation to counter that apparent problem. The
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Speaker 3: Youth Justice Board goes on to adopt the airport security
38:22
Speaker 3: philosophy by saying that time spent out of school for
38:25
Speaker 3: whatever reason is recognized to constitute a significant risk to
38:29
Speaker 3: children who are vulnerable to criminal exploitation. They did, though,
38:33
Speaker 3: concede that the Department of Education does not hold any
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Speaker 3: data on the educational attainment of known home educated children
38:42
Speaker 3: in England, which seems a most significant omission. And to
38:45
Speaker 3: return to the start of this report, the Youth Justice
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Speaker 3: Board report destroys any credibility it may have had by
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Speaker 3: considering that quote. One of the positive outcomes of the
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Speaker 3: COVID nineteen lockdown has been the education system's fast paced
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Speaker 3: adoption of virtual education technology. Although this method of education
39:04
Speaker 3: is not ideal, it could show potential for the development
39:08
Speaker 3: of future alternative support packages for children by reducing the
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Speaker 3: need to exclude or home educate a rather depressing picture,
39:18
Speaker 3: I think. Now, if you're undecided on this issue, I
39:22
Speaker 3: would recommend reading Richard Morrissey's most recent piece in The
39:25
Speaker 3: Conservative Woman describing the erosion of family identity and the
39:29
Speaker 3: appalling consequences for children as a result of exactly the
39:33
Speaker 3: virtual technology which the Youth Justice Board promotes. So I
39:38
Speaker 3: think a lot to think about it, a lot more
39:39
Speaker 3: to talk about an extra on that, and if you've
39:41
Speaker 3: got any thoughts specifically.
39:42
Speaker 1: On them, well, we've published one article by Martin Edwards
39:48
Speaker 1: already on the issue of the use of exclusion in
39:51
Speaker 1: schools and the way that children are being treated by
39:54
Speaker 1: schools in many many ways. This is going to be
39:57
Speaker 1: followed up with three or four and more articles in
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Speaker 1: the coming day. And actually there's quite a picture of
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Speaker 1: building here about the attack on children.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's very nice to you know, I don't
40:07
Speaker 3: want to sort of, you know, overdo the point, but
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Speaker 3: the BBC in particular, if you do search home education
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Speaker 3: on the BBC is absolutely phenomenal. The number of different
40:16
Speaker 3: ways in which they can say that there is something
40:19
Speaker 3: wrong with everybody that is home educated, and indeed days
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Speaker 3: that choose to do it for their children quite phenomenal capaganda.
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41:43
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41:48
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41:50
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42:12
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42:16
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42:22
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42:27
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42:31
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42:34
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42:36
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42:41
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42:44
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42:48
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Speaker 1: And one more add here.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Sunday sixteenth March just outside Cheltenham Farmers Force Security Symposium,
43:14
Speaker 3: so really getting to the heart of how to address
43:16
Speaker 3: your own personal situation and how to develop relationships with
43:20
Speaker 3: farmers and deal with the very real issue of food
43:23
Speaker 3: security in a way that the government is completely unable
43:26
Speaker 3: to and that will involve a great range of speaker,
43:29
Speaker 3: some of whom the UK column audience will be familiar with,
43:32
Speaker 3: including Sandy and I will be comparing the event. Who
43:36
Speaker 3: gets your tickets now?
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Speaker 1: Fantastic? Okay, thank you, No, let's welcome Vanessa back and Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: what's going on in your neck of the woods in
43:45
Speaker 1: Lebanon at the moment? Ah actually Vanessa's not Are you there?
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Speaker 5: I am here?
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, right, So let's go with Lebanon.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 5: First of all, I just wanted to remind people this
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Speaker 5: is the US embassy in Lubanon. Something. I can't remember
44:08
Speaker 5: how many football pitches it is, but it's vast. It's
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Speaker 5: a garrison five thousand employees. The only bigger one is
44:14
Speaker 5: in Iraq, which of course has been colonized by the
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Speaker 5: US for more than thirty years. It's a military center
44:21
Speaker 5: headquarters on one of the highest hills above the city
44:25
Speaker 5: of Routes. So just to put everything into context about
44:28
Speaker 5: what I'm going to be talking about. And of course,
44:32
Speaker 5: yesterday was the end of the ceasefire, and although Israel
44:41
Speaker 5: has withdrawn from the majority of the areas in the south,
44:45
Speaker 5: of course they've continued both to violate before and after
44:51
Speaker 5: the actual withdrawal, and they maintained their occupation in five
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Speaker 5: key areas which we've been talking about, which are the
45:02
Speaker 5: five main hills. If you just move on to the
45:05
Speaker 5: actual map, the little red triangles are quite small, but
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Speaker 5: you can freeze the screen and then be able to
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Speaker 5: see them. But all the areas in red are basically
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Speaker 5: the high points and strategic points in southern Lebanon where
45:21
Speaker 5: Israel has not only maintained a presence but is now
45:24
Speaker 5: of course building a military footprint, and that is ongoing.
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Speaker 5: Now what has also been extraordinary. We're heading towards the
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Speaker 5: funeral of the assassinated Sayed Hassan Masralla, the secretary general
45:41
Speaker 5: of Hezbollah, who was killed in an appalling way, using
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Speaker 5: about eighty bombs to target his area, of course, killing
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Speaker 5: multiple civilians during the attack, and potentially having used a
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Speaker 5: tactical newt because depleted uranium has been identified in the
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Speaker 5: area where Side in Australa was killed. So bearing in mind,
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Speaker 5: we're heading on the twenty third for this funeral, one
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Speaker 5: point five million to two million people are expected to
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Speaker 5: attend the funeral. Guess what the Israel suddenly tells the
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Speaker 5: US that they must block an Iranian flight returning from
46:22
Speaker 5: Tehran to they route after Israel claimed that the IRGC
46:28
Speaker 5: was smuggling cash on civilian plane. So we have a
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Speaker 5: very familiar story here, and in fact it was Lebanese
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Speaker 5: civilians who were turned back and had to return to
46:36
Speaker 5: Tehran after a spiritual visit to to Tehran. And of
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Speaker 5: course what happened then there were mass protests, and these
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Speaker 5: protests were not only from ISBLA, they were from Lebanese
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Speaker 5: civilians who said, we're not going to be dictated to
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Speaker 5: who can land at our airport by Israel In the
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Speaker 5: United States, this is a sovereign country. And here you
47:02
Speaker 5: have a protester at the international airport road holds up
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Speaker 5: a sign saying the road towards the airport is not Israeli.
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Speaker 5: And eventually what happened is the Lebanese army fired on
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Speaker 5: the protesters, both using live ammunition and terragas, and of
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Speaker 5: course that infuriated people even more because for how long
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Speaker 5: the Lebanese army has been allowing the Israelis to target
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Speaker 5: Lebanese civilians in the south and is not intervened at all.
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Speaker 5: And casin questioned is a thirteen year old Kadija Athwi.
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Speaker 5: Here she is with the photo of her father who
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Speaker 5: was martyred in the last war. She's thirteen years old.
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Speaker 5: She was hit by an Israeli sniper in her cheek
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Speaker 5: in Hula, one of the villages close to the borderline
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Speaker 5: with the occupied Palestinian territories, and as her sister said
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Speaker 5: in a report to Al Maya, Dean, if we can
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Speaker 5: just have the the next lide please. On February the sixteenth,
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Speaker 5: Israel occupation forces opened fire on and killed thirteen year
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Speaker 5: old kadezra Atwi in Hula. But what they don't mention
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Speaker 5: is that they left her to bleed out. Moments before
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Speaker 5: her murder, she told her sister, I miss my dad
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Speaker 5: and want to visit his grave. A miracle. A minute later,
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Speaker 5: a bullet struck her cheek, an injury her sister says
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Speaker 5: shouldn't have been faithful. In an interview with Mya Dean,
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Speaker 5: one of her sisters revealed that the Israeli occupation forces
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Speaker 5: arrived in civilian jeeps in an obvious attempt at perceiving
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Speaker 5: Hula's residents before opening fire at them. Her sisters also
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Speaker 5: denounced the Lebanese government's failure to act swiftly, saying that
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Speaker 5: if the Lebanese army had received orders to just like
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Speaker 5: the ones they were given on the airport road, if
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Speaker 5: they had fired tear gas at the Israeli enemy, they
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Speaker 5: could have saved the child who died, as they said,
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Speaker 5: from from basically bleeding out. And then again it was
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Speaker 5: really It was exposed this week by Dr Elis Jerada,
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Speaker 5: who was one of the optimologists dealing with the hideous
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Speaker 5: pager attacks that blinded and maimed multiple civilians in southern
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Speaker 5: Lebanon last year. The US sanctions at that time were
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Speaker 5: imposed deliberately to ban the import of cornea's needed for isogeries.
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Speaker 5: So the actual suffering, if you remember, they canceled flight
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Speaker 5: evacuating people outside of Lebanon for treatment and to add
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Speaker 5: to the injury. Now Air France and Emirates have suspended
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Speaker 5: their flights to Bury on February the twenty third, So
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Speaker 5: this can only be seen as a vindictive campaign to
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Speaker 5: prevent people being able to peacefully honor the loss of
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Speaker 5: one of the most important figures in Lebanon.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Vanessa, thank you. We'll talk more
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Speaker 1: about that an extra I'm quite sure, Charles. Let's come
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Speaker 1: back to the UK then, and what's going on with farming.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's still really enough time to cover all of it,
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Speaker 3: but we look to the BBC, as is often the case,
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Speaker 3: and as reference last week, the skates sorry, the state's
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Speaker 3: scaremongers in chief, the previously referenced BBC. We're promoting alleged
50:22
Speaker 3: calls for a vaccine with which to prevent the spread
50:26
Speaker 3: of so called avian flu. But of course this is
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Speaker 3: a false choice, firstly because there's no substantial evidence for
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Speaker 3: the existence of avian flu, and even less suggests that
50:36
Speaker 3: wild birds can make domesticated birds ill. But secondly, the
50:39
Speaker 3: only thing killing birds in large numbers is the government,
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Speaker 3: which has dusted off its slaughter on suspicion policy and
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Speaker 3: uplifted its capability for the destruction of perfectly healthy birds.
50:49
Speaker 3: And as reported on by UK column, the government has
50:53
Speaker 3: pushed all keepers of birds to register them with the government,
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Speaker 3: the only possible consequence of which is to harm the birds,
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Speaker 3: either via degrading their environment through keeping them indoors, or
51:03
Speaker 3: by slaughtering them in order that they do not contract
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Speaker 3: a non existent illness. So the stench of carcasses is
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Speaker 3: really only eclipsed by that of the corruption of government, industry,
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Speaker 3: and of course philanthropy. Just to walk you through its
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Speaker 3: Section five of the Avian Influenza Regulations two thousand and
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Speaker 3: six prohibits vaccination in birds. Therefore, it will come as
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Speaker 3: no surprise to learn that sections section six of the
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Speaker 3: same regulations permits vaccination under emergency conditions. The United States
51:36
Speaker 3: has invoked its own protocols in the past few days
51:38
Speaker 3: and granted a conditional license to Zoetis for the use
51:43
Speaker 3: of its avian influenza vaccine. Zoetis is a former subsidiary
51:47
Speaker 3: of Pfizer, and it explains that a conditional license is
51:51
Speaker 3: used to meet an emergency condition, a limited market, local situation,
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Speaker 3: or other special circumstance, and is issued for a finite
51:59
Speaker 3: peero of time. Use of such a vaccine in the
52:03
Speaker 3: UK was being promoted by somebody called Professor Ian Brown
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Speaker 3: of the Animal and Plant Health Agency exactly two years ago,
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Speaker 3: despite the standing regulations permitting sorry prohibiting such a development.
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Speaker 3: He is also a director of the UN's Food and
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Speaker 3: Agriculture Program, which, like so many initiatives, receives regular funding
52:21
Speaker 3: from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, So it is
52:25
Speaker 3: being as I say, a former subsidiary of Pfizer also
52:29
Speaker 3: receives funding from the Gates Foundation, most recently to advance
52:34
Speaker 3: sustainable livestock production. Now, in all of this, a significant
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Speaker 3: document to which much corruption can be traced back to,
52:43
Speaker 3: was produced by the World Bank in twenty ten called People,
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Speaker 3: Pathogens and Our Planet. I would say that this Treatise
52:50
Speaker 3: on Fear and Fiction asserts that pandemics will occur with
52:54
Speaker 3: alarming regularity and that a majority will be zoonotic in origin,
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Speaker 3: though it's not clear exactly how they were able to
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Speaker 3: predict this with such certainty, but there's no doubt that
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Speaker 3: this entire document is double speak for the many ways
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Speaker 3: in which the rural environment and its people and animals
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Speaker 3: should be attacked, and it should be noted that it
53:14
Speaker 3: traces the origins of the one Health doctrine back to
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Speaker 3: the supposed outbreak of avian influenza in two thousand and three.
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Speaker 3: The forward of this document includes the proposition that the
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Speaker 3: risks that zoonotic diseases represent to public health has led
53:31
Speaker 3: to appeals for more horizontal interaction among the sorry, the
53:35
Speaker 3: disciplines and the sector agencies, departments and ministries that are
53:40
Speaker 3: responsible for public health, medical professions, veterinary services and the environment,
53:45
Speaker 3: which roughly translates as kill all their animals and take
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Speaker 3: all their land. I should remind you that, according to
53:52
Speaker 3: their own statistics, the government have conducted the mass slaughter
53:55
Speaker 3: in this country of millions of birds and put many
53:58
Speaker 3: farmers out of businesses people out of jobs. On the
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Speaker 3: basis of recording just thirty eight cases of so called
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Speaker 3: avian influenza across the whole of the United Kingdom since
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Speaker 3: twenty fourth of November last year. On a related note,
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Speaker 3: but not too closely related as you might imagine, the
54:16
Speaker 3: Sun reports the pub Jane Weatherspoons has removed eggs from
54:20
Speaker 3: its menus due to a shortage. Now it's likely that
54:23
Speaker 3: this will be believed to be a consequence of what
54:25
Speaker 3: the government is calling avian influenza, but as always, there
54:28
Speaker 3: are several factors at play, and the capital to be
54:31
Speaker 3: extracted from a shortage is in convincing the public that
54:34
Speaker 3: bisecurity is everybody's responsibility, a mantra developed by the Chief Vet,
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Speaker 3: Christine Middlemiss while she worked in New South Wales, Australia
54:42
Speaker 3: prior to her current job. But in fact it's the
54:44
Speaker 3: push for improvements to animal welfare in the main which
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Speaker 3: has set the conditions for any perceived shortage in moving
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Speaker 3: from caged to free range birds target for this year.
54:55
Speaker 3: There are comparatively fewer barn eggs and keeping poultry indoors
54:59
Speaker 3: in extremely cramped conditions on top of their own feces
55:02
Speaker 3: is really what makes birds ill, something which is then
55:05
Speaker 3: ascribed to avian influenza because a PCR test finds the
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Speaker 3: one thing it's been asked to look for. The Grosser
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Speaker 3: magazine reports that the cost of free range eggs has
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Speaker 3: increased more than twenty percent since the start of this year,
55:17
Speaker 3: and their report on the egg market from last month
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Speaker 3: described that increased production costs of over seventy percent in
55:24
Speaker 3: certain quarters, so as well as price increases in free
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Speaker 3: range eggs which are no longer free range. Of course,
55:30
Speaker 3: because all these birds are now to be kept indoors
55:33
Speaker 3: due to bisecured security dictats, but can still be labeled
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Speaker 3: as free range, there is a relative scarcity of on
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Speaker 3: eggs now. Perversely or intentionally, pursuit of welfare has also
55:45
Speaker 3: seen a reduction in the production of organic eggs by
55:49
Speaker 3: sixteen percent, which looks bad for birds and bad for you.
55:53
Speaker 3: And we now move on to shotguns and we look
55:56
Speaker 3: at the BASc Staying on the omnipresent theme of state overreach,
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Speaker 3: the introduction of new police powers to enter the homes
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Speaker 3: of holders of firearms, the affront to liberty and the
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Speaker 3: gratuitous application of unwarranted enforcement is well described by Bill Harriman,
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Speaker 3: the Director of firearms at the British Association for Shooting
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Speaker 3: and Conservation, and he says, quote that this fundamentally undermines
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Speaker 3: the principles of fairness and due process. The government is
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Speaker 3: handing the police sweeping powers to enter the homes of
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Speaker 3: certificate holders when the ability to do so to protect
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Speaker 3: public safety is already enshrined in law. This is potentially
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Speaker 3: a serious infringement on the human rights of firearms users.
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Speaker 3: In addition, by removing the safeguard of judicial oversight, a
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Speaker 3: law abiding section of society has been placed firmly into
56:48
Speaker 3: the category of second class citizens. An article that will
56:52
Speaker 3: be in the show notes and is worth reading. So
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Speaker 3: regardless of your views on the ownership and use of
56:56
Speaker 3: firearms and shotguns, I think the point to draw out
56:59
Speaker 3: here is that, like an ever increasing amount of new
57:02
Speaker 3: legislation and regulatory powers, this goes well beyond the point
57:06
Speaker 3: of justification by public safety. And finally, when reporting on
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Speaker 3: the adjournment of Climate Nature Bill until the eleventh of July,
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Speaker 3: I suggested that it could be in part related to
57:18
Speaker 3: the end of the summer term for schools. So it's
57:21
Speaker 3: interesting to see now that the Department for Education is
57:24
Speaker 3: blogging about the push for climate education which came immediately
57:28
Speaker 3: after the vote in January, and also that the National
57:31
Speaker 3: Education Union are expressing their bitter disappointment what happened to
57:36
Speaker 3: the bill and they say that the finding show that
57:38
Speaker 3: young people who stand to lose the most living on
57:41
Speaker 3: a degraded planet on not receiving the necessary teaching and
57:45
Speaker 3: learning about the scale, scope and likely development of climate
57:50
Speaker 3: breakdown because whole school learning on climate isn't embedded into
57:54
Speaker 3: all areas of the curriculum. Stand by if you have
57:58
Speaker 3: children in foremult's date education.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, and let's end with digital ID. So the digital
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Speaker 1: ID policy is the policy agenda is moving ahead following
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Speaker 1: the establishment as we reported on some time ago, of
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Speaker 1: the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes. Well, the British
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Speaker 1: regime is working on introducing a digital voter Authority certificate
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Speaker 1: and using digital versions of identification documents stored in the
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Speaker 1: gulf dot UK wallet we're all going to have at
58:31
Speaker 1: polling stations as part of its review of voter ID policy.
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Speaker 1: This was announced in response to the Electoral Commission's report
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Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty four elections published last week and
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Speaker 1: just quote from this, it says we are exporting. We
58:44
Speaker 1: are exploring digital versions of identification documents in general as
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Speaker 1: part of our review of the voter ID policy, and
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Speaker 1: will alongside this consider the possibility of introducing digital voter
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Speaker 1: voter authority certificates. Digital ID, they say, are becoming increasingly
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Speaker 1: and a digital voter authority certificate would provide sorry, could
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Speaker 1: provide benefits, particularly in terms of convenience for the elector.
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Speaker 5: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: That's what's going to bring it in is convenience. Now.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, Politics Home is reporting that a group
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Speaker 1: of Many twenty twenty four of the Many of the
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty four batch of MPs, are demanding digital ID
59:22
Speaker 1: to State of the Reform Party because apparently MPC digital
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Speaker 1: ID as driving public services. This is a quote driving
59:30
Speaker 1: public services, cutting spending, reducing welfare, fraud, improving law enforcement
59:34
Speaker 1: and controlling borders. And they see this as being a
59:37
Speaker 1: pushback against forage in reform. But they also seem to
59:42
Speaker 1: be suggesting that digital ID would enable the benefits system
59:45
Speaker 1: to move to a so called cont contributory model where
59:50
Speaker 1: benefits are paid in so sorry, where benefits that are
59:54
Speaker 1: paid paid back to the person are based on what's
59:57
Speaker 1: already been paid in the system similar to what going
1:00:00
Speaker 1: on in Denmark. So the question is will the British
1:00:05
Speaker 1: people go for all this? The answer is possibly yes,
1:00:08
Speaker 1: although since the survey here on screen was carried out
1:00:12
Speaker 1: by Thalis, who are selling their own mobile ID smart app,
1:00:16
Speaker 1: I think we need to take this with a fairly
1:00:18
Speaker 1: huge pinch of salt. Anyway, Thalis are claiming that in
1:00:22
Speaker 1: their survey of a thousand people so not a huge number,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: that a third have a store of documents such as
1:00:29
Speaker 1: passports and driving licenses held on their mobile devices in
1:00:32
Speaker 1: an insecure way at the moment, and so they are
1:00:36
Speaker 1: also suggesting that perhaps unsurprisingly, younger people are more likely
1:00:41
Speaker 1: to do this. Now, finally, on this issue for today,
1:00:45
Speaker 1: the UK regime has you'll be pleased to know sign
1:00:48
Speaker 1: memorandum of understanding with Anthropic. This is a US based
1:00:53
Speaker 1: company which describes itself as an AI safety and research company.
1:00:57
Speaker 1: The UK government clearly think they need to provide cover
1:01:00
Speaker 1: for what they're doing with digital ID and AI. And
1:01:04
Speaker 1: make no mistake, there are two side. These are two
1:01:06
Speaker 1: sides of the same coin. So remember anyone in this
1:01:10
Speaker 1: country or everyone in this country is going to be
1:01:12
Speaker 1: genomically sequenced as part of the recently niced plans for
1:01:15
Speaker 1: AI in this country, and that only works if genomic
1:01:19
Speaker 1: sequences are linked to digital ID. So it's interesting that
1:01:23
Speaker 1: they're trying to bring in this company from the United
1:01:26
Speaker 1: States to persuade us all that it's all perfectly all
1:01:29
Speaker 1: right and all perfectly safe. We'll talk about this more
1:01:32
Speaker 1: an extra, I'm sure, but we've got to leave the
1:01:35
Speaker 1: news for today. I'm going to say thank you very
1:01:37
Speaker 1: much to Vanessa, Sandy and Charles for today's news. So
1:01:40
Speaker 1: thank you all for watching stick Around on the stream
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Speaker 1: if you are a UK called member. Otherwise, don't forget
1:01:47
Speaker 1: the interview. Brand's interview tomorrow at one pm. But we'll
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Speaker 1: see you again on Friday at one for another news program.
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Speaker 1: See then, Bye bye bye bye Empty