1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Go to Given Gray, UK correspondent Given, welcome to the show. Hi, 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: there are now tell us about the European Parliament what 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: they're planning to do on tariffs. 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to be very very interesting because 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: of course Donald Trump due to arrive in Davos for 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: the World Economic Forum, tensions running high already over his 7 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: comments about Greenland, which is now doubled down on as 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: well in the last few hours, saying that it's a 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: one way thing. He's not going back on his demand 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: to take Greenland and threatening some European countries with tariffs. 11 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: Those countries saying right, well, we're not just going to 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 2: stand there and take it. And it looks like the 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: European Parliament today will later announce it is going to 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 2: suspend approval of a US trade deal agreed back in July. 15 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 2: It was a trade deal announced with much fanfair with 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: Ursula Vonderline, one of the EU Big Weeks as it were, 17 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: and Donald Trump, and that was all after Donald Trump 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: threatened them with thirty percent tariffs. The agreement in the 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: end was fifteen percent, so yeah, slightly better but still tariffs, 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: and it was heralded. Is yep, everyone's now happy, Well, 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 2: the EU is not happy over Donald Trump's announcement at 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: Greenland and has decided, right, well, we're just going to 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 2: shelve that, put it on ice, and start to put 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: a bit of pressure on The interesting thing about this 25 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: is it may now open up questions about whether the 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 2: EU is ready to move forward mid more retaliation against 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 2: the UITs, the so called Bazooka measure, which would see 28 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: the BLOCK effectively use an anti coercion rule that it 29 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: introduced in case China got difficult with them. And this 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 2: will basically mean that American companies could be barred from 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 2: EU contracts, they could be barred from the free trade market, 32 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 2: and yeah, they could be retaliatory tariffs the other way 33 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: as well. 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 3: Right, we'll keep a bridge to that one. What about 35 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: the train crow another train crash in Spinea. 36 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, and this comes just a few days afterwards that 37 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: there have been, of course, the crash on Sunday down 38 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: in southern Spain that has killed at least forty now 39 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: is the latest estimate. There is believed to be bodies 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: potentially still trapped in the wreckage of that crash. But 41 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 2: and now a train driver has been killed and at 42 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: least thirty seven others injured, five seriously when a commuter 43 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: train derailed and crashed near Barcelona are down on the 44 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: south coast, And yeah, it comes just sort of forty 45 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 2: eight hours on a little bit more after this crash 46 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: in the south of Spain. Now, according to local officials, 47 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: the train collided with a retaining wall which had fallen 48 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 2: onto the track and apparently now we understand all the 49 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: passengers have been removed from the train. But as I said, 50 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 2: there are five seriously injured and one dead. And it 51 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 2: comes as heavy storms a bat at northeastern Spain and 52 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 2: coastal regions, and they're on high alert because of the weather. 53 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: So this was obviously a huge emergency effort as well, 54 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 2: thirty five crews sent by the local fire service. And 55 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 2: I think the Spanish rail system very much under scrutiny 56 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: after these two crashes. 57 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 3: Now, finally French police have started in desceipting migrant boats 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 3: on the water for the very first time. 59 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: Yes, after huge amounts of pressure from the UK. So 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: what the French were doing was effectively only intervening when 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 2: they see migrants on beaches ready to get on a boat. 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 2: They wouldn't physically go in the water and that was 63 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: because the excuse being used was it might endanger the 64 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: lives of those on the journey, but because they are 65 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 2: already in danger in their lives by getting onto very 66 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 2: small boats, often unseaworthy boats, to try and cross to 67 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: the UK. The UK said, look, this is now being 68 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: used and abused by the people smugglers, because what they 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: were doing was they were launching a boat with one 70 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: or two people on board from a canal slightly in 71 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: land and then there was simply motoring up and down 72 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: the coast and the asylum seekers would rush into the 73 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: water and then get onto that so called taxi boats 74 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: effectively and to get on there in order to get 75 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 2: the journey across, and the police, French police would simply 76 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 2: stand there and watch, saying well, we're not going in 77 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: the water, and it made people here in the UK 78 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 2: absolutely irate. There was even a small sort of band 79 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 2: of people from a society here in the UK that 80 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,119 Speaker 2: went over to France and were themselves going into the water, 81 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 2: believe it or not, and knifing the boats, damaging the boats, 82 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: slitting the inflatable boats so that they couldn't make it across, 83 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 2: and they were threatened with prosecution by France. But finally 84 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: now the French, who are paid millions of pounds a 85 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 2: year by the British to try and stop the boats, 86 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 2: are actually getting into the water and starting to do this. 87 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: They actually stopped their first one. It has been announced 88 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: back at the weekend, but we've only just found this 89 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 2: out and Ryan, it really has been something this government's 90 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 2: been keen they do. But then bewilder numbers in any 91 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: way damp and down. Last year there was a massive 92 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 2: number of people that came to the UK from France, 93 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: standing at thirty six and a half thousand. 94 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: Appreciate your time, Gavin. Thank you. 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