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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the conflict between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Elon Musk, far-right protests · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The riots spending violence in the UK. Devin Gray's a
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  Speaker 1: UK and Europe correspondent Gavin Good to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the program this morning. What's Elon Musk talking about civil war?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Very interesting, Ryan, So he's tweeted but on X
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  Speaker 2: that he said civil war is inevitable. It was in
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  Speaker 2: response to a video showing people aiming fireworks at police.
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  Speaker 2: The Prime minister spokesperson hit backs and there's absolutely no
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  Speaker 2: justification and said that actually social media companies should be
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  Speaker 2: doing more in order to control some of the wild
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  Speaker 2: rumors sweeping on it and the fact they're being used
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  Speaker 2: as sort of invitations to come and organize a riot
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. Anyway, it wasn't over then because then
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk replied saying that Sekir Starmer, our prime minister
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  Speaker 2: had said he would not tolerate at tax on mosques
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  Speaker 2: or Muslim communities, to which Elon musks, well, shouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: be concerned about attacks on all communities? He said, when
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  Speaker 2: he saw a video of a person being arrested for
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  Speaker 2: offensive comments online, he asked, is this Britain or the
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  Speaker 2: Soviet Union? I can't see Ryan, this row ending anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Elon Musk will start tweeting stop tweeting,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think that we are going to see
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister back down either. This disorder, as you
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, has now lasted a week and now the
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  Speaker 2: government is citing that it may well start to use
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  Speaker 2: terrorism legislation in order to take some of those responsible
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  Speaker 2: to court.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness, mate, the man's been hospitalized as well.
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  Speaker 3: This is in Belfast, yeah, and I think it's an
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  Speaker 3: indication of the fact that this is not just about
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  Speaker 3: far right motives or about immigration, because police in Belfast,
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  Speaker 3: in Northern Ireland are saying that this attack, which left
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  Speaker 3: this man in his fifties really pretty seriously injured and
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  Speaker 3: he's in a hospital, definitely included a paramilitary element. What
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  Speaker 3: does that mean where you'll remember the struggles and the
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  Speaker 3: truble in Ireland, Northern Ireland in the seventies and eighties
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  Speaker 3: and the terrorism element there and in this particular issue,
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  Speaker 3: witnesses reported seeing attack a stamp on this man's head.
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  Speaker 3: They believe it was racially motivated, while other members of
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  Speaker 3: the public tried to shield this man. There was prior
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  Speaker 3: to the attack a lot of petrol bomb throwing, masonry
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  Speaker 3: and bricks also thrown towards police, and a land rover
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  Speaker 3: from the Police Service of Northern Ireland set alighte Up
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  Speaker 3: to one hundred people involved, three hundred police officers trying
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  Speaker 3: to keep the peace. We've been sephalite and stones thrown,
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  Speaker 3: pretty ugly scenes and here we are, just one week
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  Speaker 3: on and still on a nightly basis, we're hearing.
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  Speaker 2: A different disorder in different cities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Gavin, thank you for that update. Devin Gray,
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  Speaker 1: you can you're correspond for.
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