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Speaker 1: Listen. First of all, if you're a Star Trek fan,

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Speaker 1: I've got something for you. But also I have failed,

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Speaker 1: and this is an absolute crime on my part. I

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Speaker 1: have failed to mention to you the fact that one

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Speaker 1: of our little towns has made the World's Most Beautiful

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Speaker 1: Villages list according to Forbes and the Unforgettable Travel Company.

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Speaker 1: And in the fact that Forbes is involved is like, it's

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Speaker 1: reputable and it's not a little ragged, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So anyway, it's Russell, you know, as in

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Speaker 1: Corto Arica, as in hellhole of the Pacific, as in

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Speaker 1: right up there in the beautiful like where the Duke

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Speaker 1: of Marlborough is. And if you've been there you know

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Speaker 1: that they're absolutely right. It is one of the most

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Speaker 1: beautiful little places. It comes in at number eleven on

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Speaker 1: the list. A little place in the Cotswaltz has come

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Speaker 1: in at number one by Berry B. Berry. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you know who. We can ask Gavin Gray, UK correspondent,

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Speaker 1: who's worth us? Hello, Gavin?

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Speaker 2: I have There is Bibery and it is beautiful.

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Speaker 1: What do you do when you go to Bibery?

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Speaker 2: Look at the beautiful buildings. It's quite small There isn't

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Speaker 2: a huge amount to do that. It's more just a

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Speaker 2: beautiful place to walk through the Yeah, the buildings are

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Speaker 2: kind of created out of honeycolored stones, so when the

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Speaker 2: sun shines, oh bye, it's somewhere really stunning. But I've

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Speaker 2: never been to Russell, so that's on my list.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely you should go. And what you want to

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Speaker 1: do is you want to go in the winter and

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Speaker 1: just sit there at the Duke of Marlborough by the fireplace,

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Speaker 1: sipping a whiskey and just imagining that you're a whaler

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Speaker 1: from the nineteenth century, but a clean one. So that's

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Speaker 1: quite a nice little day dream. Hey, listen, what do

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Speaker 1: you make of the fact that the Russian drones have

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Speaker 1: been down in Poland?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously a major escalation of what's been going on.

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Speaker 2: So this is the first time a member of the

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Speaker 2: NATO Military Alliance has directly engaged Russian assets that it's

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Speaker 2: been called in airspace. We believe those to be drones,

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Speaker 2: and this is the first time since the Ukraine War

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Speaker 2: started back in twenty twenty two. Currently, Poland's president is

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Speaker 2: sharing a national security briefing with key officials. The operation

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Speaker 2: no longer ongoing. Everything's been stood down by Now just

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Speaker 2: in the last a few minutes, four airports were shot

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Speaker 2: in Poland. Those have now been reopened. But this is

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Speaker 2: really serious because in the past, yes, drones have strayed

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Speaker 2: beyond Ukraine's borders, but it's always just been like one

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Speaker 2: or two and not much has happened. But this time

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Speaker 2: these have gone deep into Polish airspace and so consequently,

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Speaker 2: I think many people think, along with Russia striking a

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Speaker 2: government building in Kiev in Ukraine, is this simply testing

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Speaker 2: the West as to their resolve and how far they

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Speaker 2: are likely to go. No response from Donald Trump at

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Speaker 2: the moment, but of course it is in nighttime there.

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Speaker 2: But all of the Poland's fellow NATO members and neighbors

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Speaker 2: are saying this is unacceptable. It's a Russian war of aggressions,

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Speaker 2: says the Swedish Prime Minister, and Poland has every right

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Speaker 2: to defend its airspace. So we now also learned that

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Speaker 2: as well as Polish air Force, it was also conducted

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Speaker 2: and operation conducted with the Dutch as well, and they've

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Speaker 2: just been thanking the Dutch for deploying F thirty five

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Speaker 2: fighter jets.

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Speaker 1: Now, what is going on in France.

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Speaker 2: Today? Well, it's just a huge week really for the

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Speaker 2: French people, for the French economy. French economy currently has

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Speaker 2: a deficit of roughly seven trillion New Zealand dollars, that's

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen percent of the country's economic output

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Speaker 2: or GDP. And we've got the fifth prime minister now

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Speaker 2: appointed in the last two years, and Sebastian leco Newt

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Speaker 2: as he's called, has got a big job on his hands.

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Speaker 2: Today there is a block everything, as it's called protest,

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Speaker 2: and already we're hearing the Paris and so forth, many

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Speaker 2: people staying at home, they are not going on public

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Speaker 2: transport because so much of that has been threatened by

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Speaker 2: this strike, along with other services as well. It's called

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Speaker 2: the look on two let's block everything. And then on Friday,

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Speaker 2: the credit rating agency Fitch will reassess France's debts and

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Speaker 2: that could make its borrowing costs even higher if it

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Speaker 2: low as it's rating from double A minus. So it

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Speaker 2: really is a big week in France. And this new

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Speaker 2: prime minister, boy, what a job he's got on trying

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Speaker 2: to unite the left, the right and the center. And

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Speaker 2: that's probably why he's the fifth person to be trying

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Speaker 2: it in two years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good Stef Gvin, thank you very much, really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Gavin Gray, UK correspondent.

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