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Speaker 1: Devin Gray. Are UK correspondents with us this evening?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Kevin, Hi, there have so given?

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Speaker 1: Why is Kirstarman not saying when the UK defense budget

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Speaker 1: will hit two point five percent?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what lots of people are asking. So he's

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Speaker 2: currently at the NATO summit. NATO members pledging to spend

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Speaker 2: at least two percent of their gross domestic product their

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Speaker 2: GDP on defense by twenty twenty four, and some twenty

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Speaker 2: three of the thirty two members in the Alliance are

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Speaker 2: projected to meet this target this year. The UK already

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Speaker 2: spends a little over that figure on its defense, but

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister Sekre Starma is pledging to commit to

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Speaker 2: two and a half percent of national income on defense,

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Speaker 2: but not putting a timeline on it when that will

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Speaker 2: be delivered. And you know he's saying he's set out

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Speaker 2: a roadmap. There are multiple threats, so we have to

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Speaker 2: be ready to defend ourselves. There's a route and branch

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Speaker 2: review to secure Britain's defenses. But yeah, I mean he

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Speaker 2: says that he wants to get a strategic review you

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Speaker 2: done first, and frankly many think that could be right

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Speaker 2: kicking into the long grass because that could take a

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Speaker 2: long long time to come, but he says he needs

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Speaker 2: to review all the different security risks that this country's

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Speaker 2: faced before he then commits to this two and a

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Speaker 2: half percent. But it is I think perhaps the first

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Speaker 2: potential little sticking point within his new premiership. And suffice

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Speaker 2: to say, meeting all the world leaders, including Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: his big first international event, Yeah totally.

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Speaker 1: Hey. So BYD has decided it's going to start making

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Speaker 1: some cars and Turkey this is the Chinese electric vehicle maker.

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Speaker 1: Are they doing this yet around the EU sanctions?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, so I think that's exactly why they're

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Speaker 2: doing it. So a new plant is going to create

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Speaker 2: up to one hundred and fifty thousand vehicles a year,

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Speaker 2: five thousand jobs created by the end of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: in a deal signed at a big event by the President,

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Speaker 2: Regip tier birder One and the chief executive of BYD.

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Speaker 2: But this comes as Chinese electric vehicle makers really under

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Speaker 2: the screw, frankly from the European Union in the US

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Speaker 2: with these huge new tariffs that we've talked about for

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Speaker 2: some cars, up to nearly fifty percent tariff. But Turkey

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Speaker 2: is part of the EU's Customs Union, and that means

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Speaker 2: that things made in the country and exp exported to

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Speaker 2: the rest of the Bloc can avoid the additional tariff,

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Speaker 2: and so that's why this is particularly attractive for the

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Speaker 2: Chinese car makers. And indeed, of course it's a similar

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Speaker 2: thing in America where Joe Ryden ramping up caras on

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Speaker 2: Chinese made electric vehicles, solar panel steels and other goods,

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Speaker 2: where he's really imposed these spaces, including a one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent board attacks on electric vehicles. And this is all

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Speaker 2: because the EU and the US say that the Chinese

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Speaker 2: government is effectively subsidized in the production of electric cars

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Speaker 2: with state grants, something incidentally both by and the Chinese

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Speaker 2: government strenuously deny.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, what do you have to do when you're

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Speaker 1: in Denmark in order to be able to get the

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Speaker 1: free food and the free activities?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I quite like the sound of this. I really

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Speaker 2: can't see it working, however, but that is a cynical

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Speaker 2: brit talking to you here. Ever, this is a trial

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Speaker 2: scheme beginning in just five days time, and that'll see

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Speaker 2: tourist attractions in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, offer rewards to

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Speaker 2: tourists for activities like litter picking, traveling by public transport

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Speaker 2: or biking around the city instead of using a car.

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Speaker 2: And under the initiatives, once it's been proven you've done

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Speaker 2: these things, visitors can claim free lunches, coffee, even glasses

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Speaker 2: of wine. And the Kayak rental scheme supposedly open anyway.

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Speaker 2: It's called Cope and Pay. It's designed to offset the

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Speaker 2: environmental burden of tourism, according to the Copenhagen Tourist Board.

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Speaker 2: And they're really saying, you know, these are little steps,

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Speaker 2: but they are important steps towards a green transition. They

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Speaker 2: say it is trust based, meaning attractions are unlikely to

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Speaker 2: ask for proof that the green activity has been completed.

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Speaker 2: So in other words, you could say you've done a

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Speaker 2: bit of litterpicking and get your lunch and actually not

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Speaker 2: have done it. I think they are, however, expecting to

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Speaker 2: see your bicycle if you're cycling. But yeah, it sounds

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Speaker 2: a bit loose to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it does. Trust models never work, Gavin. They work

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Speaker 1: in our favor if we just want a free glass

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Speaker 1: of wine. Appreciate your time, mate. That is Devin gray

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