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Speaker 1: Even Gavin Gray UK correspondence with US. Hello, Gevin Hiver,

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Speaker 1: have right, So this men andjitis outbreaks now on national

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Speaker 1: incident here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, getting more and more serious here. Some fifteen cases

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Speaker 2: have officially been reported, but that includes two deaths and

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Speaker 2: the others are in hospital. The thirteen in hospital some

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Speaker 2: described as being critical and the number of cases is

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Speaker 2: expected to rise because the incubation period from infection to

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Speaker 2: when symptoms appear is between two and fourteen days. And

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Speaker 2: where they're looking at some sort of a what's been

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Speaker 2: called a super spreader event was those that attended a

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Speaker 2: nightclub in Canterbury and Kent in southeast of England, and

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Speaker 2: this particular nightclub was really pretty busy and they suspect

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Speaker 2: that between the fifth and seventh of this month, in

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Speaker 2: other words, you know, a couple of weeks back now,

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Speaker 2: the people who have gone there may have been just

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Speaker 2: very very susceptible to spreading meningitis B, which is the

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Speaker 2: strain that the government is looking at. Here. There are

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Speaker 2: big fears not only about the incubation period coming up,

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Speaker 2: but also about the fact this could be a new

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Speaker 2: strain as seat of varian strain of normal meningitis b

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Speaker 2: which is leading it to spread incredibly quickly, and there

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Speaker 2: are accues of hundreds of students and hundreds of young

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Speaker 2: people queuing to try and get around four centers that

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Speaker 2: have been set up for these meningitis be jabs in

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Speaker 2: order to try and prevent the symptoms or the onset

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Speaker 2: of any kind of meningitis. But it is a very

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Speaker 2: very difficult thing to try to beat.

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Speaker 1: Now, the ship that's drifting in the Mediterranean with the

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Speaker 1: hole on the side, is it actually leaking out LNG.

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Speaker 2: Well at the moment not, But the thear is that

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Speaker 2: it was very badly damaged in a suspected sea drone

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Speaker 2: attack near the water off Malta. It is a sanctioned

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Speaker 2: Russian oil and gas ship. In other words, it's one

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Speaker 2: of the shadow fleet, believed to try to evade Western

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Speaker 2: sanctions by turning their transponders off so that people don't

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Speaker 2: know where they are. The money must go, of course,

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Speaker 2: gets from this oil and gas helps fund its ongoing

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Speaker 2: war on Ukraine. So Ukraine is suspected to have fired

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Speaker 2: a drone at this ship, but Ukraine has not commented

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Speaker 2: on reports it was responsible for it. Now the Lebanese

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Speaker 2: it happened near their waters, and the Lebanese said it

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Speaker 2: had sunk. Well, it hasn't sunk. It's floating away roughly

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Speaker 2: forty five nautical miles eighty three kilometers from Italian territorial waters,

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Speaker 2: and it is, according to sources, carrying a significant quantity

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Speaker 2: of liquid natural gash plus four hundred and fifty tons

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Speaker 2: of fuel oil two hundred and fifty tons of diesel

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Speaker 2: all on board with the big ferod is simply going

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Speaker 2: to rupture because the structure has been so weakened by

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Speaker 2: the drone and that could lead to a major ecological disaster,

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Speaker 2: which is what some are saying. The EU needs to

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Speaker 2: act now and sort out this what we're describing as

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Speaker 2: an environmental bomb waiting to go off.

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Speaker 1: Now, you guys changing this nations for your holidays right,

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Speaker 1: not going to Dubai anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting that the holiday industry has announced that

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Speaker 2: actually there's seeing a huge disruption to passionate flights across

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Speaker 2: across the Middle East, where we knew that that that's

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Speaker 2: meant that's led to a very very sharp slowdown in

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Speaker 2: holiday bookings to the Middle East. Well perhaps no surprise there,

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Speaker 2: but also people just rebooking their holidays away from Dubai,

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Speaker 2: and Dubai very popular this time of year, much more

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Speaker 2: pleasant temperatures and more sunshine than we normally get around

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Speaker 2: Easter in the Easter breaks. But we're seeing a massive

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Speaker 2: switch now away from not just the United Arab Emirates,

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Speaker 2: but also Turkey, Cypress and Egypt, and bookings are going

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Speaker 2: up significantly to Portugal, Italy and Spain seen as sort

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Speaker 2: of more reassuring, safer destinations. Caribbean, Mauritius and some US

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Speaker 2: destinations also said to be filling up much more quickly,

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Speaker 2: and I think a sure sign people are reading these

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Speaker 2: headline worried about the safety of the Middle East and

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Speaker 2: places that prided themselves on being safe and great holiday destinations.

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Speaker 2: And of course that further will mean politicians there increase

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Speaker 2: the pressure on Donald Trump to get this war sorted

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Speaker 2: sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Hey Gvin, thank you as always. Talk to you

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Speaker 1: in a couple of days. Devin Gray, UK correspondent.

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