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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on two counter terrorism investigations in the UK and thousands of people at risk of losing hot water · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right now, Gevin Gray in the UK for US givin
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  Speaker 1: good morning. Hither are now eight men arrested over a
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  Speaker 1: suspected TIRA plot involving a target, a specific target. Do
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  Speaker 1: we know what it was?
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  Speaker 2: No, we're not being told that. We do know that
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  Speaker 2: of the eight, seven are Iranian nationals. Now, it's a
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  Speaker 2: combination of two different police operations going on around the UK,
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  Speaker 2: A gang of three, it said, being arrested in and
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  Speaker 2: around London, but also five others arrested at various locations
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  Speaker 2: around England. Part they're saying of a pre planned investigation
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  Speaker 2: into an alleged plot too, as you said, target a
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  Speaker 2: specific premises. Now, all five who were arrested around the
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  Speaker 2: country were arrested on suspicion appropriation of an act of terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: In the second operation, the three men aged between thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine and fifty five were arrested under the National Security
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  Speaker 2: Act at different addresses. What's interesting about this ran, you
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  Speaker 2: might think, well, Iranian nationals in the UK. Well, that
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  Speaker 2: is a common thread to what's going on here, because
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  Speaker 2: just last year the director general of mi I five
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  Speaker 2: said his organization and police have responded to twenty Iran
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  Speaker 2: backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens in
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  Speaker 2: UK residents since January of twenty twenty two, so twenty
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  Speaker 2: plots over a period of just over two and a
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  Speaker 2: half years. When he said that, and that, I think
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  Speaker 2: goes some way to show you just where MI I
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  Speaker 2: five is getting so busy.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now, what's the problem with your heating or potential
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  Speaker 1: problem with your heating?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, in the nineteen eighties, meters were fitted to
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  Speaker 2: effectively switch between peak and off peak use of electricity,
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  Speaker 2: because of course off peak is cheaper. However, these so
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  Speaker 2: called RTS Radio Teleswitching System meters were replaced eventually by
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  Speaker 2: smart meters, although frankly many people don't trust those in
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  Speaker 2: their home either. Anyway, this old technology is going to
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  Speaker 2: be switched off on the thirtieth of June, but it's
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  Speaker 2: estimated by some in the industry that there are still
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty thousand households using RTS meters for
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  Speaker 2: their heating and hot water, and only one thousand are
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  Speaker 2: being replaced each day. So by doing the maths, thinking
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  Speaker 2: this has to be done by the thirtieth of June,
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  Speaker 2: there's simply going to be nowhere near hitting the number
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  Speaker 2: of households that they need to do in order to
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  Speaker 2: get these people's monitors basically updated. And they're saying there
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  Speaker 2: is a very real risk that once this system is
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  Speaker 2: switched off, this long wave radio frequency system, then that
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  Speaker 2: could mean that people are left without hot water or heating.
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  Speaker 2: It is our summer, so that should be okay, but
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty inconvenient for many people, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Devin, Good to have you on. Devin Gray, our
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  Speaker 1: UK correspondent.
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