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Speaker 1: Right. Devin Gray is our UK correspondent, Devin Evening.

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Speaker 2: To you, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, have we got some evacuations going on in Greece?

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, this looks some really pretty bad. They've had

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Speaker 2: a really severe weekend. Forty fires broke out in Greece

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Speaker 2: since Saturday afternoon and firefighters are still battling seven of them.

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Speaker 2: Five hundred firefighters in total one hundred and fifty vehicles

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Speaker 2: deployed to help put out the flames, but perhaps most symbolic,

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Speaker 2: residents around to the north of Athens north and east

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Speaker 2: have been evacuated, and the historic side of Marathon is

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Speaker 2: among the areas where residents are being moved to safety

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Speaker 2: by the emergency services. With flames reaching as high as

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Speaker 2: twenty five meters. Firefighters are also evacuating people trapped by

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Speaker 2: flames in a convoy of twenty to twenty five vehicles.

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Speaker 2: They've been trying to get out and the flames were

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Speaker 2: behind them and then before they knew it, the flames

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Speaker 2: were in front of them. Are just trapped on the road,

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Speaker 2: so the firefighters trying to get them out safe. But

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Speaker 2: residents of the historic town Marathon told to evacuate towards

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Speaker 2: the beach where it's considered to be safer. The problem

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Speaker 2: has been the winds again found in the size of

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Speaker 2: the flames, winds up to forty six miles an hour,

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Speaker 2: so probably looking about sixty something kilometers per hour there,

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Speaker 2: and the firefighters say that's made life really really difficult,

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Speaker 2: with hospitals absolutely crammed as well in the area and

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Speaker 2: the flames really pretty close to Athens.

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Speaker 1: Now given listen, there's been a warning that those rioters

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Speaker 1: could actually be some of them could be jailed for

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Speaker 1: up to ten years as as serious.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is, and that's because when the Public Prosecutions

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Speaker 2: first looked at those responsible, they did the sort of

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Speaker 2: low hanging fruit first of all, in that the easy

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Speaker 2: to identify the ones that were on CCTV and frankly

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Speaker 2: the sort of smaller crimes in terms of the scale

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Speaker 2: of justice. This week we're likely to see more come

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Speaker 2: before the course, and this time we leave they're going

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Speaker 2: to be much more serious rioting and a serious charges

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Speaker 2: rather on the rioting scale, and so we're now seeing,

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Speaker 2: according to Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, some

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Speaker 2: rioters this week could be jailed for up to ten

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Speaker 2: years because of the more serious charges. The problem has

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Speaker 2: always been with this the fact that we are already

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Speaker 2: very very close to capacity of prison cells. And you

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Speaker 2: know that the previous the current government blamed the old

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Speaker 2: government and said it was their fault and responsibility. Either way,

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Speaker 2: they have managed to clear some cells up. But we're

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Speaker 2: being told now police so far arrested nearly eight hundred

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Speaker 2: people in connection with the rioting. Three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: of those have now been charged and because they are

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Speaker 2: looking out at charges of violent disorder and above, those

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Speaker 2: charges are going to be much much more serious and

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Speaker 2: could well result to as longe prison terms.

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Speaker 1: This week, Kevin, that little lego shark that was fished

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Speaker 1: out after twenty seven years actually in pretty good nick

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Speaker 1: for nearly thirty years on sea.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it. It's a couple of barnacles on it. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so this is an amazing story. So back in February

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Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety seven, a cargo ship carrying fifty one thousand,

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Speaker 2: eight hundred lego sharks were basically swept off the cargo

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Speaker 2: ship and into the ocean about thirty miles off Land's

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Speaker 2: End to the southwest of England. It was a freak

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Speaker 2: wave and sixty two shipping containers went down, nearly five

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Speaker 2: million pieces of lego aboarded. The amazing thing was that

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Speaker 2: in amongst this collection was basically a collection of new

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Speaker 2: lego pieces the building blocks for children, which were all

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Speaker 2: related to the sea. So there were sharks, and there

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Speaker 2: were different fish and all sorts of things. But you know,

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Speaker 2: no sharks had ever been found before, despite this being

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Speaker 2: some twenty seven years ago and then just going into

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Speaker 2: the ocean, so obviously the currents were playing their tricks. However,

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Speaker 2: a fisherman ironically has snagged one of those lego sharks,

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Speaker 2: the first to be found, and it did look him

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Speaker 2: pretty good. Audio all right, but it's still click into

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Speaker 2: place is quite another matter. But there is, believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, the society that looks for lost Lego pieces.

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Speaker 2: They have confirmed it is a shark and they have

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Speaker 2: confirmed it is the first piece of all those fifty

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Speaker 2: one tho eight hundred lego sharks that were made, the

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Speaker 2: very first one to be discovered some twenty seven years

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Speaker 2: of Yeah, good.

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Speaker 1: Stuff, Kevin, Thank you, always appreciate talking to You're talking

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