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UK Column News — 27th May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty seventh, twenty twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK coll News of
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Speaker 1: your host, Back Robinson. Joining me by video link today
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Speaker 1: are Charles Mallett and Vanessa Billy. Now later in the program,
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Speaker 1: Vanessa is going to be reporting on Lebanon and on Gaza.
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Speaker 1: Charles will be taking a look into the business of
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Speaker 1: war here in the UK as well as human enhancement.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to be covering the Jeffrey Donaldson trial
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Speaker 1: in Northern Ireland and the inaugural speech by the head
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Speaker 1: of GCHQ. But we're going to begin today with digital
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Speaker 1: id because yesterday evening Kiers Starmer met with bereaeved parents,
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Speaker 1: who are campaigning for a ban on social media for
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Speaker 1: everyone under sixteen. Starmer told Sky News that it's not
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Speaker 1: a question of whether he would be doing something. We
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Speaker 1: are going to act, he said.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Starmer considers a media band tougher than Australia. Is sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'll go back here because I've jumped ahead. Let's try again.
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Speaker 3: There we go.
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Speaker 1: This was the headline in the Telegraph. Australia is mentioned
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Speaker 1: because they're leading the way on this particular aspect of
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Speaker 1: narrative control. Now, The Telegraph reports that there are three
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Speaker 1: options on the table. The first option is the introduction
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Speaker 1: of a complete Australia style ban on children accessing social
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Speaker 1: media until they're sixteen. Second option would ban functionalities as
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Speaker 1: it's described, which would require social media firms to block
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Speaker 1: children from features such as endless scrolling, algorithms that drive
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Speaker 1: content towards children, auto play on videos, live streaming, and
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Speaker 1: streaks which reward daily use of a particular app. And
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Speaker 1: the third option would go further than Australia's model by
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Speaker 1: combining both the ban and the restrictions alongside tougher age
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Speaker 1: verification requirements on the social media companies to make sure
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Speaker 1: that children are denied access. But actually this coverage in
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Speaker 1: the Telegraph is nonsense because without the age verification part,
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Speaker 1: or its assurance as they like to call it, there's
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Speaker 1: no way to enforce either a outright ban or the
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Speaker 1: ban on actual functionality. So restricting age verification to the
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Speaker 1: third option loan is complete nonsense. Neither thing is that
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Speaker 1: we've been reporting, As we've been reporting for the last
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Speaker 1: eight years or so, protecting children is affront starmar doesn't
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Speaker 1: care too much about the little children. Let's make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about that. That's not what his motivation is all about.
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Speaker 1: The drive here is for digital id and the removal
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Speaker 1: of anonymity on the Internet, because there's a clear awareness
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Speaker 1: that without online anonymity, activists, citizen journalists and so on
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Speaker 1: are much less likely to take the risk of sharing
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Speaker 1: what they know with others, which removes voices from the
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Speaker 1: public conversation, even when the underlying speech is lawful and accurate.
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Speaker 1: And then, on top of that, when South Korea removed
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Speaker 1: anonymity from what was the two thousand and seven equivalent
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Speaker 1: of social media, they find that malicious comments fell by
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Speaker 1: only around zero point nine percent, while the volume of
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Speaker 1: commenting more broadly fell by much greater amount. In other words,
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Speaker 1: there was a chilling effect on speech in general, but
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Speaker 1: those motivated towards toxic behavior continued regardless. And if that's
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Speaker 1: not enough to convince you that the mot of the
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Speaker 1: true motivations for this policy, then let's remind ourselves of
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Speaker 1: this Australian Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee meeting from
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Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Of course, if you're testing to see if someone's thirteen
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Speaker 4: or fourteen, or fifteen or sixteen. You're also testing to
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Speaker 4: see by definition if they're sixteen plus. So if there's
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Speaker 4: going to be age verification, everybody is going to have
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Speaker 4: to go through an agent verification process, won't it. Yes? Yes,
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Speaker 4: So this isn't just about the privacy or collecting data
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Speaker 4: about kids. This is literally everybody access in social media.
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Speaker 4: That's how it has to work, isn't it. Yes, senatorshie Bridge,
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Speaker 4: you just use the term age verification.
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Speaker 5: You may not have been in the room when we
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Speaker 5: had a discussion about the distinction between age verification and
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Speaker 5: age assurance.
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Speaker 1: This is an age assurance trial.
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Speaker 4: This is if you're going to have age assurance for
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Speaker 4: kids thirteen and fourteen, fifteen or sixteen testing if they're
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Speaker 4: that age. You're testing everyone's age and you're doing it
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Speaker 4: at that level of age assurance, and that has privacy
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Speaker 4: and data protection implications for literally everybody access in social media,
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Speaker 4: doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 4: And that's one of the reasons why we've commissioned consumer
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Speaker 4: research to look at consumer willingness and particular aspects that
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Speaker 4: are important to them.
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Speaker 1: And of course what Australia has done there that was
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in November. What they did was they
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Speaker 1: took the decision and then they commissioned the public opinion
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Speaker 1: polling and so on. This is exactly what Starmer has
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Speaker 1: done here, as everybody's aware, and we'll come to that
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Speaker 1: in a second. But for the avidance avoidance of doubt,
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Speaker 1: then this is all about digital ID and nothing whatever
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Speaker 1: about protecting children. But it's not just Starmer who is
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Speaker 1: determined to hide what he's doing with respect to children
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Speaker 1: and so called protecting children if we bring this on screen.
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Speaker 1: The Information Commissioner issued a statement on age assurance on
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Speaker 1: Thursday last week. The ICO is committed to ensuring that
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Speaker 1: the Internet is a privacy, privacy friendly and safe space
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Speaker 1: for children that it's said. To achieve this and to
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Speaker 1: comply with data protection law, companies that say their services
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Speaker 1: are only suitable for those over a minim a minimum
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Speaker 1: age need to make effective take effective action to prevent
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Speaker 1: access by children under that age. Our massive message to
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Speaker 1: platforms is simple, modern technology is at your fingertips. If
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Speaker 1: you determine that your service is only suitable for children
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Speaker 1: over a certain age, you must have effective age assurance
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Speaker 1: measures in place. So whatever is going on in Australia
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Speaker 1: and has been going on in Australia is absolutely coming
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Speaker 1: here as well, and related then to that. Last week,
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Speaker 1: the Home Affairs Committee published its report on the government's
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Speaker 1: mandatory digital ID plans, branding the September twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: announcement as rushed, pearly thought out and failed to make
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Speaker 1: a convincing case, and they went on to say that
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Speaker 1: there was no rigorous policy development and no public consultation
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Speaker 1: ahead of the announcement. They said that the Committee welcomes
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Speaker 1: the government's decision to drop the mandatory use of ID cards,
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Speaker 1: but concludes that it has needlessly harmed public confidence in
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Speaker 1: the adoption of forms of digital ID that could serve
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Speaker 1: the public will. It further warns that this is incoherent,
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Speaker 1: sorry that this incoherent approach to policy development cannot be
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Speaker 1: repeated if public trust is to be rebuilt. Now, despite
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Speaker 1: these early policy failures, they say digital ID has potential.
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Speaker 1: So they have been critical, but only with respect and
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Speaker 1: the messaging, not with respect to the policy itself. Charles,
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Speaker 1: just very briefly, have you got any comment on.
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Speaker 6: That, thanks, Mike, Yes, I think I have, but in
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Speaker 6: a more general sense because the enormous sort of overarching
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Speaker 6: subject here is really liberty and the apparent total disregard
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Speaker 6: for what may be referred to as the social contract,
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Speaker 6: in that those people in this country or in Australia
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Speaker 6: are paying the government to act on their behalf and
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Speaker 6: in return are having laws foisted upon them that suggest,
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Speaker 6: underneath everything that we are not to be trusted to
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Speaker 6: manage our own lives and make our own decisions. This
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Speaker 6: is one of very many examples, but I think that's
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Speaker 6: the big picture here, is that we are in no
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Speaker 6: way to be given responsibility for making our own minds
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Speaker 6: up about what we do and do not engage with.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, thank you for that, Vanessa. Let me welcome you
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Speaker 1: to the program. Trump. Of course, a couple of days
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Speaker 1: ago bombed Iran again and israel I, guess took advantage
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Speaker 1: of that to absolutely double dine on bombing Lebanon.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, basically, I think what's happening is one,
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Speaker 7: it's an Israel that is enraged by the success of
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Speaker 7: the resistance FPV drones that are causing mayhem among the
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Speaker 7: forces the Zonus forces on the ground. But in the
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Speaker 7: last twenty four hours we've had about one hundred and
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Speaker 7: eighty strikes across all areas in southern Lebanon. And of
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Speaker 7: course the objective is to occupy as much land as
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Speaker 7: possible and to destroy as much infest ructure as possible
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Speaker 7: prior to a potential deal between the US and Iran,
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Speaker 7: meaning of course that what they occupy they are not
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Speaker 7: going to withdraw from, and that will be part of
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Speaker 7: the so called ceasefire. And yesterday Balazell Smotrich, the Zonus
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Speaker 7: finance minister, put out this statement saying, basically, for every
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Speaker 7: drone used by Hesbolo against SIENUS forces, ten buildings in
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Speaker 7: Beirut will be destroyed. If the buildings in Beirut run out,
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Speaker 7: then we move on to tai Asidon and the Bekhar Valley. Now,
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Speaker 7: of course he's not setting a precedent. Back in nineteen
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Speaker 7: forty one, the Nazi military at the Kragrodavik massacre in
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Speaker 7: occupied Serbia put out a similar statement saying for one
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Speaker 7: hundred sorry one German soldier killed, they would kill one
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Speaker 7: hundred hostages, and for a German soldier wounded, they would
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Speaker 7: kill fifty. In the end, they massacred two thousand, seven
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Speaker 7: hundred and ninety approximately men and boys, so similar tactics.
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Speaker 7: Natagaho himself has gone on to X talking about Operation
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Speaker 7: Lines Rale. We've eliminated approximately two thy five hundred terrorists,
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Speaker 7: so this is I think from to twenty twenty four
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Speaker 7: during the ceasefire. Now bear in mind ceasefire wantedsumes that
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Speaker 7: they would cease fire. However, of course they haven't. Seven
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Speaker 7: hundred HESBLA terrorists were eliminated, more terrorists than were eliminated
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Speaker 7: throughout the Second Lubanon War. Our forces are completing the
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Speaker 7: destruction of terror infrastructures, I mean, ignore the terror aspect,
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Speaker 7: it's civilians. Large IOA forces are operating deep in the
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Speaker 7: territory season controlling areas and fortifying the security zone. And
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Speaker 7: then we have Ben Gaverer, of course, who humiliated the
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Speaker 7: flotilla activists talking about completely cutting off all electricity to
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Speaker 7: Lebanon entirely. Of course, they could only do that as
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Speaker 7: far as I'm aware, through the Lebanese government. But then
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Speaker 7: if we look at the latest map of Lebanon showing
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Speaker 7: the so called yellow buffer zone area, the red circle
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Speaker 7: is Majel al Charms, which is actually Syrian territory where
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Speaker 7: they've been demolishing homes and infrastructure in order to set
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Speaker 7: up bases there. And you can see the forward motion
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Speaker 7: they're attacking to the east of Lebanon in the Becar
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Speaker 7: and to the north of the Latani River, which allegedly
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Speaker 7: is not part of the land that they want to
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Speaker 7: take over. Sorry, And then if we actually look, I
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Speaker 7: want to show people these are the evacuation maps that
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Speaker 7: are put out on a daily basis. So the red
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Speaker 7: area is obviously where it is going to be bombed.
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Speaker 7: You probably can't see on the screen, but there are
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Speaker 7: schools and hospitals or a school and a hospital within
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Speaker 7: that red area that is supposed to be evacuated within
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Speaker 7: sometimes minutes from air strikes on those areas. That's in
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Speaker 7: a tire or sare city. And if we look at
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Speaker 7: the deliberate massacre of paramedics in the last seventy two hours,
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Speaker 7: Israel has killed nine paramedics in southern Lebanon. And if
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Speaker 7: we actually look at the information from the Lebanese Health Ministry,
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Speaker 7: you'll see here that one hundred and twenty five healthcare
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Speaker 7: workers have been killed. So this is since March two
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Speaker 7: hundred and seventy three healthcare workers injured, one hundred and
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Speaker 7: forty nine attacks on healthcare sectors, one hundred and forty
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Speaker 7: two ambulances targeted, thirty two medical centers destroyed, sixteen hospitals
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Speaker 7: rendered inoperable, and two hundred and twenty one ambulance crews
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Speaker 7: have been targeted. And one of the most insidious and
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Speaker 7: heinous elements of this is that in order for the
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Speaker 7: civil dev to actually enter an area and rescue people
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Speaker 7: from a recent air strike, they have to go through
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Speaker 7: what is known as the Mechanism Committee. Now the Mechanism
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Speaker 7: Committee is headed up by the US, it has to
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Speaker 7: go through Israel to get the permission. And what has
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Speaker 7: been happening, as Hala Jabo, who's a journalist based in
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Speaker 7: Lebanon has just said this is in the last few hours,
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Speaker 7: the Mechanism Committee has reportedly instructed emergency responders in Marke
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Speaker 7: to halt rescue operations, despite reports that survivors are still
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Speaker 7: tra up beneath the rubble and can be heard screaming
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Speaker 7: for help. In other words, rescuers are being prevented from
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Speaker 7: pulling people out because Israel has demanded this, which suggests
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Speaker 7: it might strike the area again. Imagine surviving the initial
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Speaker 7: bombardment buried alive under concrete, hearing rescuers above you, only
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Speaker 7: for the search to suddenly stop because another strike is feared.
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Speaker 7: This is what dystopia times in South Lebanon now look like.
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Speaker 7: They're not even being allowed to save the wounded and trapped.
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Speaker 7: And then this is a recent strike in an area
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Speaker 7: called Mashgara, and people will remember from my article on
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Speaker 7: so More. Mashgara was the town that I drove through
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Speaker 7: basically to get down to Somo has also been again
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Speaker 7: under very heavy attack. But here last night or yesterday afternoon,
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Speaker 7: fifteen killed, sixteen wounded, and search operations are still ongoing there.
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Speaker 7: And then finally, I just wanted to leave people with
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Speaker 7: this very personal message from a journalist that I know,
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Speaker 7: who went back to his own hometown in South Lebanon.
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Speaker 7: So let's just roll this.
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Speaker 5: A massacre. A massacre destroyed h a house and my village.
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Speaker 5: Do her right now. The house had two women in it,
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Speaker 5: only two women, to old women. Their brother is our
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Speaker 5: friend and he's a civil defense worker and he lost
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Speaker 5: both of his sisters. And the attack, I cannot say anything. Actually,
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Speaker 5: it's a very tough moment, very very painful moment to
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Speaker 5: go with your friend and to arrive to find his
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Speaker 5: house bestoid with his two old sisters in it martyred.
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Speaker 5: This is America, this is right, this is this is
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Speaker 5: the international situation in twenty six.
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Speaker 7: And that down is still under attack this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, thank you, Vanessa Charles. Let's come over to
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Speaker 1: you then. And you know, the Trump quite famously seems
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Speaker 1: to be allegedly making huge amounts of money as on
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Speaker 1: the back of the conflict that he has started. But
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Speaker 1: it's not just happening in the United States. It's happening
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Speaker 1: here as well.
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Speaker 6: It absolutely is. Yeah, an opportunity for everybody, and it's
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Speaker 6: just a way in which all these things are coached.
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Speaker 6: And so I'm going to start with the contents of
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Speaker 6: a speech given in Vienna a week ago by the
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Speaker 6: UK's senior military advisor to the UK delegation to the
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Speaker 6: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the osce I,
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Speaker 6: reported on the recent successful test launch of the Russian
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Speaker 6: missile system, the RS twenty eight Psalmat, which is described
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Speaker 6: by the Russians as having capabilities that cannot be defeated
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Speaker 6: by any other technology out there. Sarmat can be armed
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Speaker 6: with different warheads, nuclear supposedly being one of them. And
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Speaker 6: here in this document, Colonel Jobi Rimmer reckons that the
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Speaker 6: Russian administration providing information on this is a pattern of
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Speaker 6: coercive signaling, and that it heightens instability, erodes trust, and
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Speaker 6: increases the risk of miscalculation underbinding established security commitment and transparency.
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Speaker 6: Now aside from the fact that if described accurately, Sarmat
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Speaker 6: is unbeatable currently, at least, it must be asked how
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Speaker 6: making reference to that fact differs from the line taken
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Speaker 6: by Defense Secretary John Healey in advance of the publication
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Speaker 6: of last year's Strategic Defense Review. Here he is talking
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Speaker 6: to Times Radio at the time.
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Speaker 2: It has been the ultimate guarantee of this country's national
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Speaker 2: security for seventy years. It's what putin fears most and
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Speaker 2: the UK is the only country with a nuclear deterrent
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Speaker 2: that commits it in full to protect your NATO allies,
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Speaker 2: and that it's that strong terrance in the face of
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Speaker 2: increasing threats that is required to keep British people safe,
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Speaker 2: from this country safe, and our NATO allies for the future.
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Speaker 6: He might be using different words, but essentially the message
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Speaker 6: is broadly similar, and the speech from the OC or sorry,
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Speaker 6: rather for the erse concluded with this, we will not
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Speaker 6: be deterred from supporting Ukraine's right to self defense. We
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Speaker 6: call on all participating states to recognize Russia's irresponsible nuclear
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Speaker 6: signaling for what it is, a deliberate effort to raise
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Speaker 6: the perceived cost of resolve, all of which indicates that
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Speaker 6: it's a pretty fine line between what is and what
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Speaker 6: is not considered irresponsible. Now, going back to that interview
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Speaker 6: last year, the other issue discussed was what's referred to
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Speaker 6: as defense investment, and this is what heally had to say.
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Speaker 2: Today. I've announced six billion pounds over the next five
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Speaker 2: years going in not just to build up our munition stockspiles,
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Speaker 2: but also to get new factories in place so that
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Speaker 2: in the future, if we're faced with conflict, we've actually
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Speaker 2: got a stronger industrial base in Britain that will allow
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Speaker 2: us to innovate and allow us to scale up production
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Speaker 2: if we need it.
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Speaker 7: Who's going to own those factories?
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Speaker 2: Those factories will be factories owned and invested in alongside
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Speaker 2: the UK government and taxpayer by private industry, and that's
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Speaker 2: part of the new partnership if you like that. The
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Speaker 2: SDR sets out a requirement that government must get better
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Speaker 2: value for our procurement money, and we can do that
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Speaker 2: by a different partnership with our innovators and also without
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Speaker 2: with investors. It'll be a contract. It'll be a contract
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Speaker 2: with private industry, will leverage in the investment that has
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Speaker 2: been missing in the past from private sources alongside what
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Speaker 2: the taxpayer is putting in. And my task is to
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Speaker 2: make sure that where we're putting British taxpayers money into defense,
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Speaker 2: we direct it first towards British jobs, British tech, British
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Speaker 2: businesses right across the UK.
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Speaker 6: To anyone who has read the SDR, none of that
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Speaker 6: will come as a surprise. But you could hear the
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Speaker 6: interviewer there asking if he was understanding correctly that there
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Speaker 6: is a cycle of the British taxpayer you being asked
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Speaker 6: for your money to put into various private companies which
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Speaker 6: will then sell back products which will then of course
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Speaker 6: create further havoc and chaos of the sort that Vanessa
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Speaker 6: is exactly describing, and you will continue to pay for it. Now,
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Speaker 6: on that subject, Cambridge Aerospace comes back onto the radar
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Speaker 6: that I have to make clear that this does not
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Speaker 6: relate to the six billion fund that John Healey was
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Speaker 6: just speaking about. However, in recent weeks, Luke Pollard announced
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Speaker 6: that a large quantity of Skyhammer missile interceptors have been
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Speaker 6: purchased for the UK's armed forces from Cambridge Aerospace, but
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Speaker 6: with the collective self defense of the partners in the
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Speaker 6: Middle East region in mind. Pollard was very particular to
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Speaker 6: refer to Cambridge Aerospace as a British startup, and he
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Speaker 6: described it as veteran founded. Now taking a look at
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Speaker 6: company's house reflects the fact that the sole director at
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Speaker 6: the incorporation the point of incorporation was an academic. As
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Speaker 6: I've mentioned previously, Stephen Barrett is certainly not a veteran.
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Speaker 6: And also the idea that it's Britain needs some testing too,
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Speaker 6: because as shown here by D three Venture Capital, it's
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Speaker 6: described as being one of our companies.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 6: D three Venture Capital is started by Ukrainians for those
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Speaker 6: who dare to defend democracy. That's their line. Cambridge Aerospace,
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Speaker 6: Sorry wrong, Cambridge Aerospace just indicated there in the red
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Speaker 6: Sorry if I can get the thing to catch up
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Speaker 6: in the red box there. And of course it's attracted
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Speaker 6: a lot of private investment, most notably perhaps from the
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Speaker 6: Google founder Eric Schmidt. But it's also open to investment
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Speaker 6: from state funds, and I think this is the bit
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Speaker 6: that makes it potentially even more controversial than we're already aware.
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Speaker 6: But just to look at the Export and Investment Fund
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Speaker 6: of Denmark which says that as the first state backed
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Speaker 6: fund to invest in D three, EIFO has demonstrated a
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Speaker 6: continued commitment to Ukraine's defense in alignment with its mandate
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Speaker 6: to support Danish and European supply chains and critically here
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Speaker 6: for the green transition defense and technology. So all of
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Speaker 6: those things being lumped in together now At the moment,
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Speaker 6: the UK appears to be the only country to have
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Speaker 6: ordered Skyhammer, but it could yet turn out to be
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Speaker 6: the case that the taxpayer will have shelled out into
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Speaker 6: the D three coffers via a state fund, only then
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Speaker 6: to foot the bill when it comes to procuring the
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Speaker 6: weapon system itself. And this is just one of the
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Speaker 6: areas of contradiction, as this letter from Sirluri Magnus to
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Speaker 6: Grant Schaps illustrates. Grant Shapps left his post as Defense
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Speaker 6: Secretary in May twenty twenty four and became the chair
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Speaker 6: of Cambridge Erryspace Shortly afterwards, magnus is the Independent Advisor
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Speaker 6: on Ministerial Standards. Now Grant Chaps appears to have wilfully
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Speaker 6: misled him, which is covered in a series of letters
23:59
Speaker 6: now published by the Independent Advisor. Magnusy's letter says, following
24:03
Speaker 6: concerns raised by a member of the public in October
24:06
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, a COBA queried your compliance with the
24:09
Speaker 6: conditions in which a published exchange of correspondence with you,
24:14
Speaker 6: A COBA noted your account of complying with the conditions,
24:17
Speaker 6: but also stated there is limited information in the public
24:22
Speaker 6: domain about this company's work, but it all currently indicates
24:26
Speaker 6: the Cambridge Aerospace operates only in defense. Now, sorry, my apology,
24:31
Speaker 6: I think I've got the wrong quote up on the
24:33
Speaker 6: screen there, but we'll come back to that. So not
24:35
Speaker 6: only did Grant Chaps fail to abide by the commitment
24:38
Speaker 6: to a two year cooling off period, but it looks
24:39
Speaker 6: like he lied about the nature of the sole project
24:41
Speaker 6: that Cambridgejeriospace was actually set up to create. And indeed,
24:46
Speaker 6: in fact, if I just go back to the text
24:48
Speaker 6: I was showing there, we look at the next part,
24:53
Speaker 6: which is, as I say, rather more damning. In twenty
24:55
Speaker 6: twenty four you saw to Coba's advice under the rules
24:58
Speaker 6: for a prospective role as chair founder of Cambridge Aerospace.
25:01
Speaker 6: At the time and in Shapster's word, yet to be
25:04
Speaker 6: established startup to be quote focused on research and development
25:09
Speaker 6: within a civilian aerospace application to quote, develop technologies that
25:16
Speaker 6: reduce the risks of disruption to aviation. Now it's quite
25:22
Speaker 6: clear from everything that has come thereafter, and in fact
25:24
Speaker 6: at the time that this was never going to be
25:27
Speaker 6: within the remit of Cambridge Aiospace, and they were focused
25:31
Speaker 6: solely on the missile interceptor that has been developed obviously
25:35
Speaker 6: for military purposes. But another of the main points to
25:39
Speaker 6: fall out of a set of circumstances that may be
25:41
Speaker 6: regarded as corruption, one of the most important ones is
25:45
Speaker 6: that this has only come to light due to interventions
25:47
Speaker 6: from members of the public. I think UK column viewers
25:50
Speaker 6: and listeners should in some way take heart. Of course,
25:53
Speaker 6: this does demonstrate that that only lip service is paid
25:58
Speaker 6: to the process by which former ministers actually deal with
26:05
Speaker 6: the independent advisor, But it does highlight the fact that
26:08
Speaker 6: the application of pressure may yield results. Now Shapps step
26:12
Speaker 6: down as the chair on the thirtieth of April, but
26:16
Speaker 6: as his LinkedIn profile makes perfectly clear, he's very obviously
26:20
Speaker 6: touting for similar business. And if you're listening and not watching,
26:23
Speaker 6: here Shaps pictured with James Thurston, who was then commanding
26:27
Speaker 6: Operation Interflex, the program by which the UK provides training
26:31
Speaker 6: to Ukrainian soldiers. So this looks very much like a
26:34
Speaker 6: murky episode, and it would appear that it leaves the
26:36
Speaker 6: Ministry of Defense with a longer list of unanswered questions. Mike,
26:40
Speaker 6: I don't know if you've got time necessarily to give
26:43
Speaker 6: your thoughts on what it is that Shapps or hasn't done,
26:45
Speaker 6: or why indeed there's quite such a cloak of secrecyded
26:50
Speaker 6: shrouding Cambridge Aerospace in particular.
26:53
Speaker 1: Well, these are all very good questions and something perhaps
26:56
Speaker 1: we need to look into a much more detail. But
27:00
Speaker 1: you know, it sort of stinks, I have to say, Charles,
27:04
Speaker 1: of corruption and you know we're seeing that corruption fairly
27:10
Speaker 1: over late Britain. Britain, this type of thing tends to
27:14
Speaker 1: happen a little bit under the surface and it's a
27:16
Speaker 1: bit harder to see compared to the United States. But
27:19
Speaker 1: you know, this is clearly where we're at, Charles, that
27:23
Speaker 1: we are now pursuing conflict abroad in order to profit
27:28
Speaker 1: here from it domestically. And it's not black marketeers they
27:32
Speaker 1: are doing the profiteering. It's the establishment in our countries.
27:39
Speaker 6: It is absolutely and I think, of course the other
27:41
Speaker 6: elements is that all of this is sort of underscored
27:45
Speaker 6: by partisan ship. This D three investment which described Cambridge's
27:49
Speaker 6: basically being one of our companies, of course ostensibly a
27:53
Speaker 6: Ukrainian outfit, and the relentless push of corporations into this sphere,
28:00
Speaker 6: cloaking it well at least describing it as being part
28:03
Speaker 6: of their sort of social and governance portfolio. But of course,
28:07
Speaker 6: in fact it means that they have greater greater control
28:11
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28:16
Speaker 6: which is a very uneasy place to be moving into,
28:19
Speaker 6: as if warfare needs to be conducted in the first place.
28:23
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28:26
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles. Now tonight seven pm, Jeream is speaking
31:02
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31:18
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31:21
Speaker 1: corporate control a look at the East India Company.
31:26
Speaker 6: Absolutely yes. I think the main thing to point out
31:29
Speaker 6: here is that anything we're seeing now has been done before.
31:31
Speaker 6: And this is William d Rymple, the acclaimed historian who's
31:34
Speaker 6: written several books, four books in fact on the East
31:37
Speaker 6: India Company, which course is where the corporate versus state control,
31:41
Speaker 6: or indeed corporate and state control model began. And he
31:45
Speaker 6: gives a fascinating insight into not just that, but also
31:48
Speaker 6: how that relates absolutely directly to what's seing in the
31:50
Speaker 6: world now, and indeed moves towards the focus being on
31:55
Speaker 6: Palestine and the creation of the date of Israel and
31:58
Speaker 6: how that's also related to all of this. So very
32:00
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32:03
Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles. Now, GHQ director Ann keast Butler has delivered,
32:09
Speaker 1: or well she may have delivered it by now the
32:12
Speaker 1: agencies first of what will be an annual event. Let's
32:15
Speaker 1: bring her on screen in which the serving director of
32:18
Speaker 1: GCSQ will set out the agency's assessment of the threat landscape.
32:21
Speaker 1: This is their words, of course, something the head of
32:24
Speaker 1: the head of m I five does annually. Now there
32:27
Speaker 1: she is, that's actually that photograph, of course, is from
32:30
Speaker 1: April this year when she was speaking at cyber UK,
32:33
Speaker 1: because she hadn't actually delivered the speech by the time
32:37
Speaker 1: we came on the air, or at least when we
32:39
Speaker 1: were preparing these graphics. But what was the feature Russia,
32:43
Speaker 1: of course was the main talking points. So the lecture
32:46
Speaker 1: was held at Legsea Park, which is GCHQ's wartime home.
32:51
Speaker 1: And this marks the eightiighth anniversary of the US UK
32:55
Speaker 1: Intelligence Agreement, and so she was referencing the gcsq's first director,
33:01
Speaker 1: Arstro Dennison, who discreetly prepared for war by recruiting language
33:06
Speaker 1: students in nineteen thirty nine. She described the present period
33:10
Speaker 1: as a moment of consequence, shipped by a new era
33:14
Speaker 1: of radical uncertainty, contested geopolitics and rapidly changing technology. And
33:21
Speaker 1: she went on to say that Russia took up the
33:24
Speaker 1: bulk of sorry, I should say Russia took up the
33:27
Speaker 1: bulk of the lecture. She said that Moscow is relentlessly
33:30
Speaker 1: targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust
33:36
Speaker 1: in Britain and Europe, and she accused Russia of stealing
33:39
Speaker 1: technology and plotting sabotage and assassination attempts. She assessed that
33:45
Speaker 1: Putin is going backwards on the battlefield in Ukraine, and
33:49
Speaker 1: she said that UK sanctions on Russia linked cryptocurrency platforms,
33:54
Speaker 1: banks and financial networks which were being used buy pass restrictions,
34:01
Speaker 1: so the sanctions being increased in other words, and so on.
34:05
Speaker 1: But on China then she said that Beijing is a
34:10
Speaker 1: science and technology superpar that it's creating a narrowing window
34:15
Speaker 1: for the UK and allies to stay ahead. And she
34:17
Speaker 1: called for cybersecurity to become ten times more urgent from
34:21
Speaker 1: boardrooms to living rooms, including switching passwords for pass keys,
34:25
Speaker 1: which we reported a few weeks ago the National Cybersecurity
34:29
Speaker 1: Center was pushing hard hardwiring security into new technologies and
34:33
Speaker 1: protecting supply chains. So Russia the main focus of her comments,
34:40
Speaker 1: and clearly this is being used to drive this war narrative.
34:45
Speaker 1: But let's move back to Euvanessa, and of course on
34:50
Speaker 1: Friday we were talking about the flotilla and Israel's well
34:54
Speaker 1: appalling behavior with respect to the people that they had
34:58
Speaker 1: effectively kidnapped from the flotilla. You've got a bit of
35:01
Speaker 1: an updated for us.
35:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I guess what I wanted to point out
35:06
Speaker 7: because I've been following governments related to the nationality of
35:11
Speaker 7: the activists four hundred and thirty activists held in torture
35:15
Speaker 7: chambers effectively by Israel, but focusing today on Canada. But
35:20
Speaker 7: I'm applying it across the board in effactact very de
35:24
Speaker 7: terrents currently for Israel to stop what it's doing wherever
35:27
Speaker 7: it is, whether it's against flotilla activists, against Palestinians in Gaza,
35:32
Speaker 7: West Bank, Laban and Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc. And so
35:38
Speaker 7: I'm focusing on Canada. So this was in response. This
35:42
Speaker 7: was from Netanyahu. He said, basically, Israel has every right
35:48
Speaker 7: to prevent provocative flotilla's bringing humanitarian aid of Hamas terrorists
35:53
Speaker 7: supporters from entering our territorial waters and reaching Gaza. Of course,
35:58
Speaker 7: they were intercepted in international waters. However, the way that
36:03
Speaker 7: Minister bean Gavia dealt with the flotilla activist is not
36:06
Speaker 7: in line with Israel's values and norms. I would argue
36:10
Speaker 7: it is. I've instructed the relevant authorities to deport the
36:14
Speaker 7: provocateurs as soon as possible, and then if we move
36:19
Speaker 7: forward from this. So there, effectively, he was saying, Okay,
36:22
Speaker 7: Bean Gavie was a bit out of line, but were
36:23
Speaker 7: still going to continue raping, abusing and torturing whoever crosses
36:27
Speaker 7: our path. Basically, you then have this collation of statements
36:33
Speaker 7: from all the nationalities or many of the nationalities involved rape,
36:37
Speaker 7: assault and abuse reflect Israeli government values. This is in
36:40
Speaker 7: Consortium News. The link is in the show notes. But
36:43
Speaker 7: let's have a look at the Polish delegation. Karima Wad,
36:48
Speaker 7: who's a medic holding dual Polish and UK citizenship, told
36:53
Speaker 7: about being choked with a torn Palestine flag by an
36:56
Speaker 7: Israeli soldier. He was subsequently subjected to continue new as
37:00
Speaker 7: stompings to the head by six soldiers because he had
37:03
Speaker 7: written free Palestine on his body. He was singled out
37:06
Speaker 7: from multiple strip searches, severe beatings with a handheld metal detector,
37:12
Speaker 7: and having his hair ripped out. He further revealed that
37:15
Speaker 7: the Israeli forces systematically flooded the floors of the dark
37:18
Speaker 7: shipping containers with cold water every few hours to prevent
37:22
Speaker 7: detainees from sleeping. And I know that you heard other
37:25
Speaker 7: testimonies on Friday, So let's have a look at the
37:28
Speaker 7: reaction from the Canadian governments. First, of all, there was
37:31
Speaker 7: a phone call between the two foreign ministers, Gideon Sara
37:34
Speaker 7: and Anita Anand if we look at what Anita anand
37:38
Speaker 7: went on x to say, she said she spoke to
37:41
Speaker 7: the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs to express Canada's serious
37:45
Speaker 7: concerns regarding the mistreatment of Canadian participants. I emphasized that
37:50
Speaker 7: denying Canadian citizens access to consular services during their detention
37:55
Speaker 7: constitutes a violation of the Vienna Convention and that this
37:58
Speaker 7: must never happen again. Canada is providing the Israeli authorities
38:02
Speaker 7: with evidence regarding these mistreatments. We have requested an independent investigation,
38:08
Speaker 7: which we know never goes anywhere, and we expect those
38:11
Speaker 7: responsibly held account. But but here we get to the
38:13
Speaker 7: main point. We also discussed the alarming rise in anti
38:17
Speaker 7: Semitism in Canada, as well as the measures taken by
38:20
Speaker 7: the Government of Canada to protect the Canadian Jewish community
38:22
Speaker 7: from hate and violence. So yet again anti Semitism is
38:26
Speaker 7: brought in to shield Israel from prosecution and being held
38:30
Speaker 7: to account. You then have the readout from Gideon Sara himself,
38:36
Speaker 7: where he says, I describe the sole aim of the
38:39
Speaker 7: extremist anti Israel flotilla activists already framing it provocation at
38:45
Speaker 7: the service of Hamas. Just look at what they did
38:48
Speaker 7: afterwards in Spain, Greece and Austria. Israel will continue to
38:51
Speaker 7: act in full accordance with international law and will not
38:55
Speaker 7: permit any breach of the lawful naval blockade on Gaza.
38:58
Speaker 7: It's not lawful or highlighted back to anti Semitism, the
39:03
Speaker 7: horrific anti Semitic waving Canada and average of nineteen incidents
39:06
Speaker 7: a day. This pattern continues. So if we then look
39:10
Speaker 7: at the conversation between Mark Karney, the Prime Minister of Canada, who,
39:15
Speaker 7: in part of his conversation with Hertzog, the President of Israel,
39:20
Speaker 7: he says he reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians,
39:24
Speaker 7: including Canadian citizens, aboard the flotilla was unacceptable, called for
39:28
Speaker 7: an independent investigation. And what did Herzog say in response?
39:34
Speaker 7: He says, basically in his readout, that they agreed the
39:37
Speaker 7: two leaders that Iran is a regional and global threat
39:40
Speaker 7: and must never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
39:43
Speaker 7: He then goes on to express his deep alarment and
39:46
Speaker 7: mounting levels of anti Semitic violence in Canada. So again
39:50
Speaker 7: anti Semitism is brought up to protect Israel from accountability.
39:54
Speaker 7: And my point is in this report is that we
39:57
Speaker 7: can't rely on our governments to defend it from the
40:00
Speaker 7: incoming Zionist capture of our state, of our institutions, and
40:06
Speaker 7: so on. And this message from one of the Flotillar activists,
40:10
Speaker 7: I think expresses exactly what I want to say.
40:14
Speaker 5: Love.
40:17
Speaker 9: My message the world is shame on you, Shame on
40:19
Speaker 9: all of you, Shame on everyone who is silent about this,
40:21
Speaker 9: Shame on every government that keeps on trading at Israel,
40:24
Speaker 9: including my own governments. They keep on trading with Israel.
40:27
Speaker 9: Israel's complete Israel is the genocides. My government is complicit,
40:30
Speaker 9: the whole of Europe is complicit, the whole world is complicit.
40:32
Speaker 9: So my message to all governments is shame on you,
40:35
Speaker 9: and to all people is please stand up, stand up,
40:37
Speaker 9: and make noise for Palestine, for all genocides around the world,
40:40
Speaker 9: because if we don't do it, no one else will
40:43
Speaker 9: do it.
40:46
Speaker 7: I can't say it clearer than that.
40:49
Speaker 1: Indeed, thank you for that. Vanessa Charles. Let's come over
40:54
Speaker 1: to you then, and well, we've just had the Enhanced Games,
40:58
Speaker 1: so enhanced saying humanity seems to be the men, or
41:03
Speaker 1: at least one of the men agendas at.
41:04
Speaker 6: The moment, Well, I think I'll leave the viewers and
41:08
Speaker 6: listeners to decide whether it is actually an enhancement. There
41:11
Speaker 6: is a story about money, data dependency, and the push
41:14
Speaker 6: towards transhumanism, because, as you say, the Enhanced Games twenty
41:17
Speaker 6: twenty six have just taken place in Las Vegas, FEA
41:20
Speaker 6: during a bevy of athletes taking substances and using equipment
41:24
Speaker 6: which is banned in traditional contest. Now, whilst it would
41:29
Speaker 6: be easy to dismiss this as a fringe vanity project,
41:32
Speaker 6: there are a few elements of it which merit some
41:35
Speaker 6: further scrutiny. On the face of it, there was not
41:37
Speaker 6: a huge amount to see. One world record, though of
41:40
Speaker 6: course not official, was broken in the swimming pool, although
41:43
Speaker 6: this only represented an improvement of eight hundreds of a
41:46
Speaker 6: second in a year for the swimmer who was being
41:49
Speaker 6: supervised by the enhanced program. Now, rather than being any
41:53
Speaker 6: sort of celebration of the human form, it appears to
41:55
Speaker 6: be about the collection of data on a very large
41:57
Speaker 6: scale and the normalization of medical intervention and control in
42:01
Speaker 6: the everyday life of people who are being convinced that
42:05
Speaker 6: this will make them better. But I'm not going to
42:07
Speaker 6: show you some commentary from the event itself.
42:11
Speaker 3: This is probably the most quantified games in history, nine
42:16
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five data points on each athlete. When
42:19
Speaker 3: I talk to the athletes, they tell me they have
42:20
Speaker 3: never received sexual robust measurement. Now this is near and
42:23
Speaker 3: near to my heart. I've spent millions of dollars in
42:25
Speaker 3: the past three years measuring my body trying to understand
42:28
Speaker 3: all the data points. It's really remarkable. Cardiac health, respiratory, muscle, seletal, phone, brain,
42:34
Speaker 3: it really is something spectacular. The athletes get that privilege
42:36
Speaker 3: and see that insight into their body. It allows them to know,
42:38
Speaker 3: through their protocols, how to improve themselves and also to
42:41
Speaker 3: correct for safety.
42:43
Speaker 6: Have we ever ever ever studied athletes this and depth.
42:46
Speaker 3: I don't think there's been anything in history that is
42:48
Speaker 3: quantified athletes to this degree. And you know, it really
42:51
Speaker 3: helps because they're endeavoring to do performance enhancing drugs and
42:54
Speaker 3: doing that, you want to be safe and you want
42:56
Speaker 3: to make sure the dose is correct. So having this
42:58
Speaker 3: feedback loop of the high fidelity measurement helps them dial
43:00
Speaker 3: in for the performance goals. Can you break down for
43:03
Speaker 3: our beautiful audience at home, what exactly are the athletes taking.
43:06
Speaker 3: What they did is they gave h athlete a menu
43:08
Speaker 3: of options a testosterone, the stimulants, growth hormone, metabolic modulators,
43:13
Speaker 3: EPO derivatives, and what they said is you can take
43:16
Speaker 3: these enhancers. You don't have to. You can take them
43:19
Speaker 3: up to a certain amount, but not more. By doing
43:21
Speaker 3: that moderation, the athletes could work within the medical framework
43:24
Speaker 3: and doctor could oversee the protocols and what they've seen
43:26
Speaker 3: is pretty remarkable improvements and strength and capacity. So so
43:29
Speaker 3: far it's work.
43:34
Speaker 6: Sorry about the overlaid music, there's nothing I could do
43:36
Speaker 6: about that, unfortunately. But the purpose of putting on a
43:39
Speaker 6: show like this is that ordinary people are drawn into
43:43
Speaker 6: considering the enhancements such as these shown. Of course, we
43:47
Speaker 6: have the idea that, as it says, if you just
43:49
Speaker 6: pop that on screen, now, this is science driven human
43:52
Speaker 6: versus supposedly about the individual. But of course, what you'll
43:55
Speaker 6: see behind our holiads of packets of some things that
43:58
Speaker 6: are being mentioned, such aspadide, which of course you know,
44:03
Speaker 6: the one thing not mentioned is any potential side effects
44:07
Speaker 6: or anything like that. And as I said at the beginning,
44:09
Speaker 6: the idea that in embarking on a program like this,
44:12
Speaker 6: you're absolutely going into dependency not just upon the substances themselves,
44:17
Speaker 6: but upon the monitoring and data collection side of it.
44:22
Speaker 6: But also the other element is that the sale pitch
44:25
Speaker 6: sales pitch is reinforced with a series of photographs suggesting
44:28
Speaker 6: that results will be the perfection of the human form.
44:31
Speaker 6: And as I say, there's no mention made of the
44:33
Speaker 6: potential and not at all unlikely side effects, which of
44:37
Speaker 6: course overlaps very strongly with the narrative concerning the weight
44:41
Speaker 6: loss drugs that are now out, the dangers of which
44:43
Speaker 6: Liz Evans has reported on comprehensively for UK column. We
44:48
Speaker 6: just quickly at deal Room, which makes mention of the
44:51
Speaker 6: enormous sums of money involved the project led by Sorry wrong,
44:56
Speaker 6: I haven't actually got that quote that, I'll just read
44:58
Speaker 6: it out the The project, led by chief executive Maximilian Martin,
45:03
Speaker 6: has raised more than three hundred million dollars from investors
45:06
Speaker 6: including Peter Teel and Balaji Strnivasan, and the core pitch athletes,
45:11
Speaker 6: breaking world records with the help of substances and equipment
45:15
Speaker 6: banned in traditional competitions, the Games did attract few athletes.
45:19
Speaker 6: I should just make note of that, but I think
45:22
Speaker 6: drawn by the prize money. Fred Curley the American one
45:25
Speaker 6: one hundred meters and took away a quarter of million dollars,
45:27
Speaker 6: but of course he was not an enhanced athlete. And finally,
45:31
Speaker 6: just look at the sponsors to get an idea of
45:33
Speaker 6: sort where this is going, and you'll see clearly the
45:37
Speaker 6: prominence of Rumble and zoop and this appears to indicate
45:40
Speaker 6: strength of the push that this is getting on the
45:42
Speaker 6: social media and video sharing platforms, further exposure for what
45:47
Speaker 6: has to be regarded as a stepping stone towards transhumanism.
45:51
Speaker 6: And I think the only thing to add really would
45:52
Speaker 6: be the way in which the young mind is targeted.
45:55
Speaker 6: Of course, these sorts of supporting competitions like the Olympics
45:58
Speaker 6: would have been historically are absolutely there to captivate young minds,
46:03
Speaker 6: but of course this is introducing a whole load of
46:04
Speaker 6: new elements which do not look going in a very
46:07
Speaker 6: good direction.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles. Now let's move on to Northern Ireland
46:12
Speaker 1: and well Jeffrey Donaldson, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson arrived in Court
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Speaker 1: and Ury in Northern Ireland yesterday for the jury selection
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Speaker 1: process for his trial into historic sexual crimes including rib.
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Speaker 1: His wife, Lady Eleanor Donson, faces a trial of the facts,
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Speaker 1: unrelated charges of hitting at a bed at a betting,
46:33
Speaker 1: which she has denied and now I will come back
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Speaker 1: to this in a moment. The Donaldson's were arrested in
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Speaker 1: their country downe home and charged with and charged on
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Speaker 1: the twentieth of March twenty twenty four. Donaldson resigned as
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Speaker 1: DUP leader the next day and did not contest his
46:51
Speaker 1: Lag and Folly seat for Parliament at the following general
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Speaker 1: election four months later. He was accused of rib, four
46:58
Speaker 1: kinds of gross ad decency and thirty kunt of indecent assault.
47:03
Speaker 1: The offense has allegedly occurred between nineteen eighty five and
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, and there are two alleged victims.
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Speaker 1: The trial was postponed on two occasions last year because
47:13
Speaker 1: of Lady Donaldson's health, and it's for health reasons specifically
47:18
Speaker 1: or mental health that she's not facing a criminal trial
47:21
Speaker 1: but a trial of the facts. Now, this is a
47:23
Speaker 1: highly unusual situation. The jury is going to hear the
47:26
Speaker 1: evidence against her and they can acquit, but they cannot
47:29
Speaker 1: find her guilty. Instead, they can find that she did
47:32
Speaker 1: the things she's accused of, and because she's not being
47:35
Speaker 1: found guilty, she cannot go to prison. My mainstream coverage
47:39
Speaker 1: of this leaves it at that point, but they don't
47:42
Speaker 1: mention the fact that the judge has it within her
47:45
Speaker 1: power to commit Lady Donaldson for treatment, for example, So
47:49
Speaker 1: it's not guarantee that she'll walk away from this if
47:52
Speaker 1: she is found to have done the things that she's
47:54
Speaker 1: accused of. Now, this is a major fall for Jeffrey Donaldson,
47:58
Speaker 1: whose political mentors included in Or Paul and Jim Mulino.
48:02
Speaker 1: And he is of course entitled to be considered innocent
48:05
Speaker 1: until proven guilty, but it's hard to see how he
48:08
Speaker 1: could come back, at least politically from this, even if
48:11
Speaker 1: the case against him is not proven. Now they are
48:14
Speaker 1: heavy reporting restrictions on the case because of the public interest,
48:19
Speaker 1: and also this warning for the general public on social media.
48:23
Speaker 1: Sorry I'm running ahead of himself there. So the Attorney
48:28
Speaker 1: General for Northern Ireland said I would remind members of
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Speaker 1: the public that they can be found at contempt of
48:33
Speaker 1: court if something they publish creates a substantial risk that
48:36
Speaker 1: the course of justice in the criminal proceedings would be
48:38
Speaker 1: seriously impeded or prejudiced. Prejudiced, a sentence of up to
48:43
Speaker 1: two years imprisonment can be imposed. Users of social media
48:47
Speaker 1: should therefore take great care before posting or reposting clips
48:51
Speaker 1: or commentary, and may wish to delete material at this
48:54
Speaker 1: point rather than risk proceedings being brought against them. Further,
48:57
Speaker 1: it is a criminal offense to identify the complainant, who
49:00
Speaker 1: must remain anonymous. So that is the kiss is continuing.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the jury was selected yesterday and today is
49:10
Speaker 1: the first day of the kiss proper. It's expected to
49:12
Speaker 1: last four weeks or so, and we'll see what happens.
49:16
Speaker 1: But yet another MP accused of criminality with respect to
49:24
Speaker 1: sexual conduct. And but you know, we've got to trust
49:28
Speaker 1: these guys, don't we. Now, Vanessa, let's come back to
49:31
Speaker 1: you then and we'll just bring us up to date
49:36
Speaker 1: with what's going on in Gaza.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it is role focused today. So in Graza what
49:45
Speaker 7: we're now saying, if we look at this first map,
49:47
Speaker 7: we already knew about the yellow line that is basically
49:51
Speaker 7: annex fifty eight percent of girls are including of course,
49:54
Speaker 7: as I've said before, some of the most abundant agricultural land,
49:58
Speaker 7: pushing the garden population further and further towards the sea,
50:04
Speaker 7: living in tents, ratten fested and of course being basically
50:09
Speaker 7: deliberately starved, bombed and attacked on a regular basis. Now
50:14
Speaker 7: there is a second orange line appearing, which apparently as
50:18
Speaker 7: the Zionists creating a buffer zone inside Kasa between the
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Speaker 7: gardens and the Israeli occupation forces. And a recent article
50:32
Speaker 7: at drop site News also includes this map, so here
50:37
Speaker 7: you can see that Israel has constructed twenty five kilometers
50:41
Speaker 7: of earth berms along the yellow line in Gaza and
50:44
Speaker 7: is fortifying thirty eight military bases to the east of
50:48
Speaker 7: the area under Zenus control, which are the black dots there.
50:53
Speaker 7: And of course what they are continuing to do is
50:57
Speaker 7: to massacre gardens in the slip of land that they're
51:02
Speaker 7: now living in, using also even white phosphorus, dropping it
51:06
Speaker 7: on the plastic tents, which then of course turn into
51:12
Speaker 7: incendiury homes for many of the children and families living
51:19
Speaker 7: in them. And this for me was such a shocking image.
51:22
Speaker 7: This is Gaza. When you look at this landscape which
51:27
Speaker 7: formerly was bustling cities, towns, communities, completely flattened, and that
51:34
Speaker 7: building or whatever it is creation in the middle there
51:38
Speaker 7: is one of the Zionest military bases, from which of
51:42
Speaker 7: course they also snipe the Palestinians in the western sector
51:47
Speaker 7: of Gaza again on a very regular basis, but thirty
51:52
Speaker 7: eight of these bases being built up. For me, what
51:54
Speaker 7: this indicates, of course, is that Israel is effectively taking
51:59
Speaker 7: over Gaza incrementally under the Trump peacecam nobody's really paying
52:06
Speaker 7: much attention now, and that in my view also was
52:09
Speaker 7: the intention of Trump's peace plan as it's known, which
52:13
Speaker 7: for me was just the next step towards the final
52:17
Speaker 7: solution in Gaza, which will be the final ethnic cleansing
52:22
Speaker 7: of Gaza and occupation by Israel, while of course it's
52:25
Speaker 7: also focusing on the same in West Bank.
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Speaker 1: It's quite incredible and really dark. Actually, okay, we'll talk
52:33
Speaker 1: about that and many other things in extra just after
52:37
Speaker 1: this program, but let's come back to the UK now.
52:40
Speaker 1: And of course the use from the energy regulator off
52:44
Speaker 1: JAM is that there's going to be a thirteen percent
52:48
Speaker 1: increase in the energy price cap for the period covering
52:51
Speaker 1: first July to the thirtieth of September twenty twenty sixth.
52:55
Speaker 1: The current price cap for a typical household paying by
52:58
Speaker 1: direct David for GASNOCRAS is one six hundred and forty
53:02
Speaker 1: one pounds a year and that's based on typical energy
53:06
Speaker 1: use in a domestic household. So this is going to
53:09
Speaker 1: mean for a typical household eighteen pounds a month increase
53:14
Speaker 1: per and that, of course at a time when we're
53:18
Speaker 1: seeing huge pressure on people with costs of living and
53:22
Speaker 1: so on. Of course, this is being blamed on the
53:24
Speaker 1: war with Iran and nothing to do with government policy
53:28
Speaker 1: or globalization of energy markets Charles, But you know, quite
53:35
Speaker 1: what is the current regime going to do about this
53:38
Speaker 1: because people coming under massive financial pressure at the moment.
53:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they absolutely are. And I think, just to
53:47
Speaker 6: unpick the lie, you know, everything points towards Iran. I mean,
53:50
Speaker 6: you know, anyone checking their statistics would be surprised to
53:53
Speaker 6: learn how little we are supplied from the Middle East.
53:56
Speaker 6: I mean, around one percent of what is used by
53:59
Speaker 6: the United Kingdom actually comes from that direction. But on
54:04
Speaker 6: related matter, although assumingly not necessarily directly related, I'm going
54:08
Speaker 6: to start with a fairly innocuous sounding announcement from DEFRA
54:12
Speaker 6: about a thirty million pound investment to be thrown at
54:16
Speaker 6: Endangered Wildlife Father Wildlife Rich Habitat Fund. But as always
54:20
Speaker 6: there is rather more to it, as born out by
54:23
Speaker 6: this statement in the press release. This will help meet
54:28
Speaker 6: our international commitment to protect thirty percent land for nature
54:32
Speaker 6: and our legal environment at target to restore over five
54:36
Speaker 6: hundred thousand hectares wildlife rich habitat by twenty forty two.
54:40
Speaker 6: Now that's the thirty by thirty target, and that does
54:44
Speaker 6: not come from government. It was adopted at COP fifteen
54:48
Speaker 6: as part of the coming Bondtrial Global Diversity Framework, and
54:52
Speaker 6: it has indeed been foisted upon the United Kingdom and
54:56
Speaker 6: many other countries, of course. But the question to be
54:59
Speaker 6: asked is to what does this portend? And by coincidence,
55:03
Speaker 6: published just three days earlier by the Government, sorry, by
55:06
Speaker 6: the Government Actories Department, is a rather alarmist report indicating
55:11
Speaker 6: an urgent financial risk. Now a Government Actories Department expert
55:17
Speaker 6: so called experts co author of major new report which
55:20
Speaker 6: calls on Actories, policymakers and financial institutions to treat nature
55:24
Speaker 6: loss as a serious economic threat, not a secondary concern.
55:28
Speaker 6: This absolutely falls into what Mike's just been talking about
55:32
Speaker 6: with regard to Ankes Butler and the threat, supposed threat
55:36
Speaker 6: and critical infrastructure posed by Russia. Anyway, the report's called
55:41
Speaker 6: Tipping into the Wild Unknown, and it argues that nature
55:44
Speaker 6: is critical infrastructure. There we go underpinning food systems, water supply, health,
55:48
Speaker 6: climate regulation, and economic activity. So it very much looks
55:53
Speaker 6: like with the shine moving off climate change that instead
55:59
Speaker 6: sort of order environmental concern or at least story is
56:02
Speaker 6: being reworked, but very much toward the same ends. And
56:06
Speaker 6: as to what those ends might be, they're strongly hinted
56:08
Speaker 6: at by the government's call for evidence outcome on the
56:11
Speaker 6: subject of expanding the role of the private sector in
56:16
Speaker 6: nature recovery. And this is predicated on the assertion that
56:19
Speaker 6: nature and the services it provides are at the heart
56:23
Speaker 6: of our economic prosperity. And here we go national security,
56:26
Speaker 6: from clean water and fertile souls to pollination and climate regulation.
56:30
Speaker 6: Our economy depends upon the natural environment. Well, that may
56:33
Speaker 6: be the case, but slightly cryptically, it also states that
56:36
Speaker 6: this is not a consultation and does not represent any
56:40
Speaker 6: firm decisions by government very familiar ring to it here, rather,
56:44
Speaker 6: it is the next step in an ongoing conversation. However,
56:48
Speaker 6: what does not make clear is that the focus course
56:50
Speaker 6: is on the benefits to be derived by the investor
56:53
Speaker 6: rather than the public for whom the government is supposed
56:56
Speaker 6: to be acting, and it is this that goes to
56:58
Speaker 6: the heart of what is described has been described for
57:00
Speaker 6: some time now as natural capital. So the specifics of
57:04
Speaker 6: the return on investment are not dealt with, but the
57:06
Speaker 6: government is certainly not suggesting that this is to be
57:09
Speaker 6: achieved by any means other than the public purse. So
57:13
Speaker 6: connections between these three documents are just another example of
57:17
Speaker 6: corporate and private interest being served by government policy from
57:21
Speaker 6: which tangible public benefit is very hard to discern. And
57:25
Speaker 6: this relates back to so many of the stories even today,
57:28
Speaker 6: certainly energy and indeed Russia. And this is just yet
57:31
Speaker 6: another push but of course coached in terms that makes
57:35
Speaker 6: one think, or at least the general public think that
57:38
Speaker 6: this is to do with a substantial benefit to the
57:42
Speaker 6: environment and to wildlife.
57:45
Speaker 1: Two comments or questions Charles. First of all, what are
57:48
Speaker 1: the animals going to spend this thirty million pounds on
57:51
Speaker 1: and second of all, I didn't hear any mention of
57:54
Speaker 1: food at all.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think I mean this is it would
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Speaker 6: be I'd probably be chancing it to speak for the animals,
58:04
Speaker 6: or they think it might be fair to have a
58:07
Speaker 6: thought for them, because what this doesn't absolutely deal with
58:11
Speaker 6: at all, although there are pushes from most notably from
58:15
Speaker 6: the Soil Association recently with their petition to stop glyf
58:18
Speaker 6: state being used as a pre harvest crop. But of
58:20
Speaker 6: course what this doesn't deal with is the farming practices
58:23
Speaker 6: that are currently in progress in the mainstream, which is
58:27
Speaker 6: the chemical eradication of swathes of not just soil and
58:33
Speaker 6: other plants, but also of course animals. So this is
58:36
Speaker 6: very much a case of giving with one hand and
58:39
Speaker 6: taking away with the other, in so far as they're
58:41
Speaker 6: not actually dealing with the proper issues. Instead, as I said,
58:46
Speaker 6: you know, this is the climate narrative being slightly reworked
58:50
Speaker 6: in order that more and more can be set aside
58:52
Speaker 6: and that people can have land taken away from them
58:55
Speaker 6: via various mechanisms, not leads through some of the schemes
58:58
Speaker 6: that Natural England retain control over. But certainly there's absolutely
59:02
Speaker 6: no reference here to how food is going to be
59:05
Speaker 6: produced in harmony with these sorts of with these sorts
59:09
Speaker 6: of schemes. That is something that no matter whether they're
59:12
Speaker 6: from DEFRAH or indeed the actuallyst Department, they talk about
59:14
Speaker 6: it being critical infrastructure, the don't actually articulate how that
59:19
Speaker 6: works with food.
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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for that. Okay, well that's it for today.
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Speaker 1: We've got to leave it there. Say thank you, Charles
59:26
Speaker 1: and Vanessa. Thanks to everybody that's watched. Stick around a
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Speaker 1: Friday for another use program.
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Speaker 3: See you then a