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Speaker 1: Devin Gray's our UK correspondent, Gavin.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, that good evening.

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Speaker 1: Good evening. Now, Liberation Day is fast approaching. This is

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Speaker 1: the US side of it. But the terrorists that could

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Speaker 1: have ventuate as a result would be really devastating for

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Speaker 1: the UK. But there's a potential deal here and actually

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Speaker 1: the soundings coming from both your side and the Washington

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Speaker 1: actually sounding relatively positive. How has it engaged?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think that's about right.

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Speaker 3: So there was a call last night at our time,

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Speaker 3: less than twelve hours ago between our Prime Minister Sekirir

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Speaker 3: Starmer and Donald Trump, the US President. The difference I

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Speaker 3: think that the UK is arguing over many other nations,

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Speaker 3: particularly the EU block as a whole, is that the

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Speaker 3: UK has a relatively equal trading relationship with the US

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Speaker 3: compared to its other partners. In other words, we import

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Speaker 3: as much from the UI export in a rough way.

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Speaker 3: We're also very fearful, of course, as men are, about

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Speaker 3: what it'll do to our economy if they do tariffs

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Speaker 3: and we five back with tariffs.

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Speaker 2: The governments that have official.

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Speaker 3: Watchdog on these things, the Office for Budget Responsibility, says

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Speaker 3: that a reciprocal trade war could wipe billions from the

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Speaker 3: economy with the GDP next year at point six percent

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Speaker 3: lower than forecast and one percent lower than next year.

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Speaker 3: So this is big, big deals to be done, and

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Speaker 3: apparently the phone call went well, but of course it

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Speaker 3: is a bit of a race against time as these

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Speaker 3: taxes are you in shortly. But the government here as

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Speaker 3: well making it clear that actually they are willing and

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Speaker 3: ready to reciprocate with trade taxes if necessary, but that

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Speaker 3: is something that I think they're desperate to avoid because

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Speaker 3: of course, if there is less growth in this economy,

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Speaker 3: it'll mean that the current forecasting for how the economy

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Speaker 3: is going to go will be way off, and that

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Speaker 3: means that it's going to wipe out that headroom for

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Speaker 3: the finance minister when it came to her plans for

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Speaker 3: taxing the economy and spending and saving money.

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Speaker 1: The Marine pin right right wing candidate in France, she's

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Speaker 1: going to have a bit of a moment shortly before

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Speaker 1: the courts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is really crucially important for her future as

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Speaker 3: a politician, but also I think for the politics of France.

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Speaker 3: So she is due in court in just a couple

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Speaker 3: of hours time now for a verdict on a trial

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Speaker 3: targeting her National Rally party and also targeting her Now

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Speaker 3: she stands accused of using European Union parliamentary money in

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Speaker 3: order to pay party salaries Ryan and of course that

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Speaker 3: is not allowed. Those are the accusations which she denies.

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Speaker 3: Now the prosecutors are suggesting not just a fine, fairly

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Speaker 3: hefty more than half a million New Zealand dollars, but

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Speaker 3: also a prison term and get this and an ineligibility

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Speaker 3: from running for public office for five years. In other words,

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Speaker 3: she would have to go and be dropped from the

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven presidential race. Now currently she is sitting

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Speaker 3: very very firmly at the top of the opinion polls

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Speaker 3: in some of these things, certainly first or second place.

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Speaker 3: And so consequently, if she is banned from basically standing

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Speaker 3: for public office for five years, that would completely scupper that.

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Speaker 3: And indeed there are senior figures also within her party

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Speaker 3: also on trial at this affair, so that would really

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Speaker 3: leave her a thorough handicap to trying to run in

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Speaker 3: twenty seven, and something that would be difficult to overturn

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Speaker 3: in time for her fourth presidential race and the one

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Speaker 3: offering the greatest chance of victory for.

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Speaker 1: Her yeah, interesting stuff now not as interesting as this.

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Speaker 1: This Polish election story. The president's elections story quite a

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Speaker 1: good one. What's happened?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the Polish presidential election now in a couple

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Speaker 3: of months. One of the main candidates at the moment.

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Speaker 3: The second set of favorite is a guy called Carol Narorik,

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Speaker 3: and he has been widely ridiculed after its emerged that

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Speaker 3: he went on television disguised to praise a book. What

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Speaker 3: we didn't know at the time was the book he

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Speaker 3: was praising was one he had written. He wrote this

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Speaker 3: book that is about basically mafia and gangland related crime.

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Speaker 2: Its fiction.

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Speaker 3: Obviously that he had gone on wearing dark glasses and

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Speaker 3: a big coat and seemed to be slightly out of focus,

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Speaker 3: creating a pseudonym for himself and saying what a great

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Speaker 3: book this was, how it really inspired this historian that

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Speaker 3: he claimed to be, and also a social media post

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Speaker 3: saying that he had met the author, saying how good

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Speaker 3: it was to meet him, and that the author thanked

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Speaker 3: him for this interesting book.

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Speaker 2: All very very bizarre.

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Speaker 3: It has created a storm of mockery on Polish social media,

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Speaker 3: although it has to be said that Carol Naraki himself

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Speaker 3: is not that.

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Speaker 2: Bothered about it.

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Speaker 3: He said, literary pseudonyms are nothing new in Polish academia,

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Speaker 3: and then praised himself again. There was only one historian

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Speaker 3: in Poland who had the courage to study organized crime,

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Speaker 3: and I was that historian.

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Speaker 2: He says, So he's kind of doubling down on this.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, plenty of Polish people finding this very amusing

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Speaker 3: and wondering if he's going to stand this his real

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Speaker 3: self or as his disguise self.

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Speaker 1: Bobby each way to go with both, I'd say, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: thank you for that. Givin Gray at UK Correspondent.

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