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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Devin Gray is a UK correspondent. Given a verdict expected

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Speaker 2: later today in the case against the Italian Deputy Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister Matteo Savigni.

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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, run this has been a long time coming

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Speaker 1: to court. So basically, there was a non governmental, a

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Speaker 1: charity boat that was bringing one hundred and forty seven

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Speaker 1: migrants that they'd rescued in the Mediterranean to Italy. But

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Speaker 1: the Italians, and in particularly the then minister for that

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Speaker 1: and now Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, refused, said no,

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Speaker 1: you can't come here. We're not allowing any more boats

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Speaker 1: and migrants to come to Italy. By that stage, Italy

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Speaker 1: was pretty much inundated every day with new migrants arriving,

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Speaker 1: particularly to an island called Lampadusa that one sticks out

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Speaker 1: into the Mediterranean and was therefore nearer for these boats

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Speaker 1: to get to anyway. He refused to do it, but

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Speaker 1: eventually the prosecutor in Sicily ordered the best to be

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Speaker 1: seized after inspecting it and noting that situation had deteriorated

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Speaker 1: very seriously on board. After this standoff had kept going

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Speaker 1: for three weeks with the politician Matrio Salvin he's saying no,

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Speaker 1: you can't come, and the non governmental ship the open arms,

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Speaker 1: saying look, we've got one hundred and forty seven migrants here.

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Speaker 1: They are seriously ill, there's nowhere else for them to go.

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Speaker 1: And the standoff continued until they were allowed on via

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Speaker 1: a prosecutor and a legal ruling. Well, it's all come

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Speaker 1: to court now with Matio Salvin. He accused of kidnapp

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Speaker 1: and dereliction of duty over that refusal to allow the

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Speaker 1: ball the boat to dock, and indeed prosecutors and sicily

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Speaker 1: have asked judges to sentence him to six years in jail. However,

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Speaker 1: he's a close ally of the Prime Minister, the current

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, Giorgio Maloney, and he's saying I was doing

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Speaker 1: what I had to do to protect Italy. Even Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk has weighed into it, saying that the courts in

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Speaker 1: Italy are sort of weighed against, biased, against in favor

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Speaker 1: of migrants and against the government. So this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a very very interesting decision though. I think

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Speaker 1: if it's against Matteo Savini, we can expect an immediate appeal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like they would too. Let's move to

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Speaker 2: the UK and minister there has been named in an

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Speaker 2: investigation into an embezzlement case. What can you tell us?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you couldn't make this up. So the minister who's

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Speaker 1: responsible for tackling corruption in UK financial markets is now

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Speaker 1: alleged to be involved in a massive embezzlement in Bangladesh.

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Speaker 1: Sounds odd, doesn't it, But Eulip Sadik, whose family come

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Speaker 1: from Bangladesh, her family were involved in a tie up

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Speaker 1: with Russia to build a massive new nuclear power plant,

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Speaker 1: and that deal was said to be struck in twenty thirteen. However,

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Speaker 1: Tulip Sidik, the British MP who as I said, is

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Speaker 1: a labor minister, has now been named into claims that

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Speaker 1: her family embezzled some eight and a half billion New

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Speaker 1: Zealand dollars from infrastructure projects in Bangladesh. So it was

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Speaker 1: claimed that they deliberately overinflated the price, Russia paid the price,

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Speaker 1: and that the family that Tulipsidik belongs to, which was

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Speaker 1: also connected to the then Prime minister of the country,

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Speaker 1: managed to get the massive amount of sort of backplayers

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Speaker 1: it were, from this deal. Now Tulipsidik and her sources

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Speaker 1: are saying these are Trump to charges nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with her completely politically motivated. Her aunt, who was then

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Speaker 1: leader of Bangladesh has been deposed back in August, and

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Speaker 1: so they're saying this is all part of payback for that. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister says he's got full confidence in Tulip Cidik.

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Speaker 1: She will continue her responsibility as the minister overseeing anti

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Speaker 1: corruption efforts. But as you can imagine, the opposition party

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Speaker 1: is having a heyday with.

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Speaker 2: This rah you can make home while the sun shines.

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Speaker 2: The typical water bill in the UK, Gevin is going

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Speaker 2: to increase twenty five percent on average from April. What's

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Speaker 2: driving there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Ryan, this is a massive at a time

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Speaker 1: when I think people are once again beginning to feel

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Speaker 1: slightly better, wages rising above inflation. It looks like there's

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Speaker 1: going to be this massive rise, and that particularly is

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Speaker 1: because of a massive amount of work on the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: that needs doing. The many parts of the system are Victorian,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, in the sewer system anyway, and

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Speaker 1: so different water companies, because the UK has a sort

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Speaker 1: of regional approach to different water companies in different parts

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Speaker 1: of the country are charging different amounts. But I did

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Speaker 1: a quick bit of mass and it looks like the

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Speaker 1: average rise is twenty five percent. Now, that's going to

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Speaker 1: be about one hundred and ninety New Zealand dollars a

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Speaker 1: year extra. Doesn't sound much, does it. But we've got

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Speaker 1: petrol and fuel prices rising again, electricity prices rising again,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, lots lots of consumers being to think, when

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Speaker 1: will these rises ever come to a AP?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're all wondering the same thing, Gavin,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that. Devin Gray, our UK correspondent. For

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