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Speaker 1: Hey, out of the UK with us. We've got Gavin Gray. Hello, Gevin,

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Speaker 1: Hi there cool. It is going to get hot in

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Speaker 1: southern Europe.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it It is, Yes, it's already hot and it's

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Speaker 2: getting hotter today. So yesterday southern Spain recorded forty six

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Speaker 2: celsius in Barcelona. One woman died after completing a shift

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Speaker 2: as a road sweeper in very high temperatures. Hot air

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Speaker 2: from North Africa has really spread north and across the

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Speaker 2: Balkans as well to Southern Europe and the holiday destinations

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Speaker 2: like Croatia, leading to these really soaring temperatures, and Italy, Greece, Spain,

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Speaker 2: France and Portugala all among the countries affected. There are

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Speaker 2: wildfires currently in Greece and the weather forecast is saying

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Speaker 2: it's a very very intense period of heat for this

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Speaker 2: time of year. Normally, high temperatures like this are recorded

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Speaker 2: late July early August, so to have them mid to

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Speaker 2: late June as they've been experiencingarticularly peaking now, is pretty devastating.

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Speaker 2: Here in the UK, it was thirty one celsius in

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Speaker 2: London yesterday, thirty three predicted today and today is the

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Speaker 2: opening day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. That'll make it

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Speaker 2: the hottest opening day ever in history.

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Speaker 1: Now, Gavin, what do you make of this controversy around Glastonbury?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting. This so some groups were performing at

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Speaker 2: Glastonbury live on television, among them Bob Villain. This is

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Speaker 2: a rap punk duo and during their set, as I said,

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Speaker 2: live broadcast, the rapper Bobby Villain led chance of free,

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Speaker 2: free Palestine and death death to the IDF that's the

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Speaker 2: Israel Defense Forces. Now this was broadcast live Glastonbury did

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Speaker 2: nothing to pull the plug on them, and some are

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Speaker 2: saying this is effectively hate speech. The UK has joined

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Speaker 2: in now saying it was appalling. The music festival glaston

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Speaker 2: reorganizers say that they were appalled by what was done

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Speaker 2: and the Prime Minister labeling it as hate speech, saying

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Speaker 2: the BBC now has questions to answer over the live

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Speaker 2: broadcast why it didn't pull the plug. This is certainly

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Speaker 2: going to rattle on for some considerable time. There are

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Speaker 2: others saying, look, you know, all they were doing was

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Speaker 2: pointing out what's going on in Gaza, Palestine, just saying,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's all terrible there. But this call for

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Speaker 2: death to Israel defense forces I think has crossed the line,

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Speaker 2: has taken it further, and the BBC very much in

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Speaker 2: the firing line, along with the rap punk duo and

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Speaker 2: police in Somerset, which is where the county where Glaston

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Speaker 2: Rey is also investigating complaints they've had about it being

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Speaker 2: discriminatory language and deeply offensive.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now I see in the UK there is this

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Speaker 1: project right to create the building blocks of human life

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Speaker 1: from scratched. It's from scratch, I imagine this is huge controversial.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is, and it's why it's taken so long

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Speaker 2: actually to get the go ahead. The Welcome Trust, that's

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Speaker 2: the world's largest medical charity, has given an initial twenty

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Speaker 2: two million New Zealand dollars to start this project. It's

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Speaker 2: being conducted around the world, but with pretty several bases

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Speaker 2: in and around Cambridge where there's a research team there.

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Speaker 2: What they hope is this will help improve people's lives

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Speaker 2: as they age, lead to healthier aging with less disease

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Speaker 2: as they get older, and accelerate treatments for many incurable diseases. However,

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Speaker 2: what critics say is this will lead to designer babies.

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Speaker 2: In other words, people pretty much designing the baby they

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Speaker 2: want via a DNA and also unforeseen changes in future generations. So, Heather,

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Speaker 2: basically every cell in our body contains this molecule called DNA.

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Speaker 2: It's made of four smaller blocks, and those patterns between

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Speaker 2: the four smaller blocks AGCT are eat it over and

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Speaker 2: over again in various combinations, and that is all the

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Speaker 2: genetic information we need. Now we know that much, and

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Speaker 2: also we now know that it can be read like

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Speaker 2: a barcode in our body. Bizarrely, the question is, though

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Speaker 2: researchers want to create parts of these molecules and maybe

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Speaker 2: one day all of the molecules. So they were going

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Speaker 2: molecule by molecule from scratch, and that would mean you

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Speaker 2: could effectively construct a human. And this is deeply worrying

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Speaker 2: for many people who are worring, you know, just concerned

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Speaker 2: that it's going to get in the wrong hands.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, you took me back to science class, AGCT. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Kevin, I appreciate Itgavin Gray, UK, corresponding

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