1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: And in the Brady is our UK correspondent. Heyinda, Hey, Heather, Great, 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: what's this emergency meeting about? Ree Israel? 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 2: So Keir Starmer is weighing up his options, really, and 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 2: he likes to be organized. So I think what he's 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: expecting is a phone call from Donald Trump asking permission 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: to use a joint UK US air base in the 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: Chagos Islands called Diego Garcia. That is where the biggest 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: aircraft the United States have will take off from. And 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: if they are going to use a bunker buster bomb 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 2: to wipe out these nuclear facilities that the Iranians have 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: in a place called four Doh, that's where the aircraft 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: will have to take off from. So Starmer is getting 13 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 2: organized out of the blue. He called this emergency meeting 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, a couple of hours long. They call it COBRA. 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: Normally it means there's like a domestic threat or incident 16 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: and they go into it. All sounds very dramatic, cobra 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: Cabinet office, briefing room. Hey, that's how Anna Dyne it 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: actually is. So Starmer went in there and he had 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: his defense and security people with him. They're weighing up options, 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: and I guess as well. You know, there could also 21 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: be the feasibility of perhaps the Americans asking for refueling 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: options at RAF at Criterion Cyprus. So he's quite adamant. 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: I think that the Americans are going to get involved 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 2: and they may ask for some British support. 25 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: Well yeah, so if you believe the Wall Street Journal, 26 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: and I have no reason not to, then Donald Trump 27 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: has already approved the plan. It just needs his final 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: go ahead, in which case is Starma just doing this 29 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: on the in case or are they actually getting all 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: the ducks in a row and then they're going to 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: pull pen. 32 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 2: Now, I think Starmer hasn't been told anything in advance. 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: That much was clear. They went to the G seven, 34 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 2: and everything that has happened subsequently I think has blindsided Europe. 35 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: So all of the people I've spoken to this week 36 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: on my TV show, no European leaders were informed whatsoever. 37 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: They've been completely taken out of the loop. And everything 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: that's happening with Israel and America, nobody in Europe has 39 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: a heads up. So Starmer, as much as he's probably 40 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: the only person in Europe that has any influence or 41 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: the Trump would even listen to Starmer, knew nothing. 42 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: Why has Europe been taken out of the loop. 43 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: I think in recent weeks the relationship with Israel, certainly 44 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: in the UK, has deteriorated. Starmer decided to sanction two 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: very senior Israeli ministers over appalling comments they made about 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: the people in Gaza. So Smodrich and Ben Gevere have 47 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: been sanctioned by the UK government. That did not go 48 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: down well in Tel Aviv, did not go down well 49 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: with net and Yahoo. And you know, the people were 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: saying that the UK is now anti Semitic, you know, 51 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: the usual rhetoric we get from Israel every single time 52 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: something happens that they don't like. Starmer, it took him 53 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: a long long time to sanctioned these two guys, but 54 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: he did it, and I think that has really upset 55 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 2: the Israeli government. So, you know, the UK has backed 56 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: Israel to the hilt for decades, and now it's no 57 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 2: longer considered to be a reliable ally. 58 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, Hey, this body that's been found in the 59 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: London explosion. Hell is a body in the London explosion 60 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: also stabbed. This looks Dodgies all hell, doesn't it? 61 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 2: Yes, it does. And a man in his forties has 62 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 2: now been arrested on suspicion of murder. So the emergency 63 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: services turned up to what they thought was simply a 64 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: terrible gas explosion. They went into the rubble and they 65 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: found the body of a woman in her forties, a 66 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: married woman with children in her forties. Closer inspection of 67 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 2: that body and they realized that it was not as 68 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: straightforward as what they initially turned up to, expecting she 69 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: had been stabbed, and they really appalling irony and all 70 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 2: of this. It's such a tragedy. The lady had been 71 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: working helping women who are victims of domestic violence, and 72 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: it would now appear that the man arrested was known 73 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: to her and that she herself has become a victim 74 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: of domestic violence. 75 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: Jesus, that's pretty said Inda. Thank you, I really appreciate 76 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: your time, mate. Look after yourself. 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