1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: So Trump calls Zolinsky a dictator, and now Starma is 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: calling Zelinsky for apparently some advice in the Brady's at 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: UK correspondent in the Good Evening. 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, reassurance, I think was the main kind of effect 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 2: that the Downing Street wanted last night from that phone call. 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: So Starmer got on the phone, spoke to Zelenski. They 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: get on, They have a good relationship. And this is 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: all because of what Trump said. As ever, lately, whatever 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: happens in the world, he has an opinion, and the 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: feeling here is that he's very wrong. So the reason 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: Trump called Zelensky a dictator is because he suspended elections, 12 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: brought in martial law. His term in office was due 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 2: to finish in May of last year. There should have 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: been presidential elections in Ukraine, and Trump is making out 15 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: that he's a dictator because of that. Here in the UK, 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: people are pointing out, well, world War two, what the 17 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 2: Winston church He'll do? He suspended elections until after the 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 2: war was finished, and of course, famously Churchill then lost 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,639 Speaker 2: that election. The Russians are rubbing their hands with glee 20 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: at the prospect of them enforcing elections in Ukraine because 21 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: what they're trying to do is get Zelenski out. They 22 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 2: haven't managed to kill him in the last three years, 23 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: so what they're hoping is that some pro Kremlin puppet 24 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 2: will somehow engineer a win in Ukrainian elections at some 25 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 2: point this year. If there is a peace plan. Starmer 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 2: is going to get on a plane next week to Washington, 27 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: d C. And see Trump face to face. And it 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 2: does look like the UK Prime Minister is stepping up 29 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: now as the statesman of Europe to try and get 30 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 2: involved here and make sure Ukraine does not go down 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: the pan. 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: Does he have the experience to do then, well that's. 33 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: A very good question. But look, given that we had 34 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: Liz Trust run this country for six weeks and we 35 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: had the circus with Boris Johnson, I would say Starmer 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: is our best bet. And as much as a lot 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: of people won't like hearing that, he's a very serious 38 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,919 Speaker 2: man and these are serious times, but in all honest, 39 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: I mean, it's a pretty low bar here in the UK. 40 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: The last few years a huge sinkhold. Tell us about this. 41 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: This is Neil London, a village and it's had to 42 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: lead to some evacuations of homes because of these sink 43 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: all so big. 44 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and another one has now appeared beside it on 45 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: the same stretch of road. It's on the main street 46 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: through a place called Godstone now is in the county 47 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: of Surrey, just south of London. Why is it important. 48 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: It is a main kind of cut through to get 49 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: on the M twenty five motorway, so literally thousands of 50 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: motorists would have gone through the village of Godston most days. 51 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 2: Local residents are saying this is part of the problem, 52 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 2: big heavy lorries using the village as a cut through. 53 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 2: What's actually going on is it's built on chalkstone and 54 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: there were mines in the area years ago. There are 55 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: caves in the area and clearly subsidence has happened, so 56 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: imagine you can see the pictures online. It is absolutely shocking. 57 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: The first sinkhole is twenty meters long and the end 58 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: result is emergency services called in, people evacuated and local 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: workmen telling reporters that this job is not days, not weeks, 60 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: it is months and thirty families have had to leave 61 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 2: their family homes just like that. 62 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: Goodness. Are they flats like next to each other or 63 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: are they stand alone homes in the sweet village. 64 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 2: They look to be standalone semi loan properties. It's an 65 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 2: expensive area. But you know, basically people have been told 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 2: gold to a hotel. There is no support. Locals are 67 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: saying some people have gone to friends. I guess you 68 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: find out who your friends are is you've got to 69 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 2: move house in the space of ten minutes. 70 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: Hey, Jim Redler's this is a recklarf. Sorry. This is 71 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: the guy that's running ins and owns in theos rather 72 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: and is having a bit of a run in with 73 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: a New Zealand rugby union. So Men's History United, which 74 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: he owns too. They've got some financial results in a 75 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: great for. 76 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: The last quarter. This is really interesting. So this now 77 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: paints us the picture as the why he's pulled out 78 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: of n ZED rugby, why he's pulled out of the 79 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: America's Cup with Ben Ainsley. Lots of other projects as well. 80 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: I see a sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur wenty yesterday 81 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: in the Premier League. Right, the last three months of 82 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: last year Manchester United lost is Manchester United. They lost 83 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: fifty four million en ZED dollars. Now included in that 84 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 2: was a payoff for the outgoing manager who got sacked 85 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,799 Speaker 2: the Dutch guy Eric ten Hagen, his coaches, and also 86 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: a guy called Dan Ashworth who was brought in much 87 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 2: fanfare as sporting director. He lasted less than six months. 88 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: Getting rid of the two of them and all the 89 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: coaches cost somewhere in the region of twenty nine million 90 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: en Zed and on top of that, loans from the 91 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: Glazer family that they engineered in the last nineteen and 92 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: a half years have now topped. This is the interest 93 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: on the loans. Manchester United have paid two billion en 94 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 2: Zed dollars and it's clear Raptliffe sat down and thought 95 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: this us to stop. We need to shore up some 96 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: money somehow. 97 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: Goodness made that does help to actually explain the situation 98 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: that we find ourselves in here at the bottom of 99 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: the world. End to thank you for that. Inde Brady 100 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: are UK correspondent with us. 101 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. 102 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: Listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, 103 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.