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Speaker 1: Mike Pierce, a UK correspondence with US.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Mike, very good evening to you.

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Speaker 1: Right, so the Lord Mandelsson thing has really taken over

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Speaker 1: with you guys.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, indeed, this story actually going to overdrive with

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Speaker 2: the UK media. Now. Of course, it's all around the

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Speaker 2: US Department of Justice releasing more than three million pages

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Speaker 2: of the Epstein files. Now, in particular, all started with

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Speaker 2: the release of three photographs showing Andrew mountin Batten Windsor,

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Speaker 2: the former Prince Andrew on his hands and knees over

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Speaker 2: a woman on a floor. She's fully closed. It's not

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Speaker 2: known who she is or where these pictures were taken. Now,

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Speaker 2: following that, the big story hitting here another image showing

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Speaker 2: the former UK Ambassador to America, Lord Peter Mandelsson in

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Speaker 2: his underpants with a woman in a bathrobe. He's also

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Speaker 2: said to have been given seventy five thousand dollars by Epstein.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Mandelsson has for forty years been a leading

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Speaker 2: politician here in the UK, architect of the Tony Blair government.

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Speaker 2: He has now resigned from the Labor Party he's represented

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Speaker 2: for those forty years. Mandalson says he is no relocation

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Speaker 2: of any of this. Epstein, of the course, was found

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Speaker 2: dead on his Manhattan police sell in August twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: shortly after being arrested for sex trafficking charges with young Mimy,

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Speaker 2: the story making massive headlines here in the UK. I

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Speaker 2: can tell you.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me so. Obviously, Mendelssohn has been asked to

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Speaker 1: give evidence in the US, as has Andrew. Would it

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Speaker 1: rescue his reputation to some extent if he was seen

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Speaker 1: to be helping investigators over.

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Speaker 2: There, Well, I think, to be absolutely honest, Mandelsson actually is.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of the opposition parties have criticized him.

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Speaker 2: I think when he was sent to the US as

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Speaker 2: an ambassador that was a bit of a surprise by

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Speaker 2: secure Starmer. But as I say, I mean over the

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Speaker 2: years he has really been one of our biggest politicians.

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Speaker 2: You know, he is saying he has no recollition of

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Speaker 2: this at all. Andrew is also said repeatedly he's denied

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Speaker 2: any of the suggestions that have come out of any wrongdoing.

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Speaker 2: So I think we just have to wait and see

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Speaker 2: what happens. But but yeah, will they go to the

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Speaker 2: US and give evidence. We'll have to wait and see it.

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Speaker 1: I think, now, what's gone on with the Ukrainian meeting?

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Speaker 1: Has it not taken place?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think hopes of peace, you know, really have

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Speaker 2: had a major setback. Now, talks between the United States,

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Speaker 2: Russia and Ukraine were canceled at the last minute yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He sought the US dispute with Iran is the reason

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Speaker 2: taking up the time with some of their diplomats. Now.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has also claimed at the end of last

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Speaker 2: week that Russia had agreed to a one week ceasefire

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Speaker 2: due to the very cold.

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Speaker 1: I wondered how long it was going to take. The

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Speaker 1: cold weather appears to have cut us off. Listen, I said,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be stuff coming out of the Epstein ones.

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Speaker 1: Here's another one for you, the Epstein files. They have

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Speaker 1: caught a New Zealand academic Professor Bryan Boyd doesn't He

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Speaker 1: does not appear to have done anything wrong. So I

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Speaker 1: just want to say that up front. It's just interesting

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Speaker 1: the fact that he was involved in this, caught in

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Speaker 1: the kind of the orbit of Epstein in a way.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: Professor Brian Boyd is an expert on Nubberkoff, who was

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Speaker 1: the author of a Lolita, the book for which Epstein

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Speaker 1: is nuts, right, because if you remember the weird picture

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Speaker 1: where he'd written Lolita on somebody's body, he's totally natural. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: standby is I think we've got Mike Beck and I'll

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Speaker 1: finish that story in just to tick Mike.

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Speaker 2: You're there, Yes, i'deed, I am yet sorry. You were

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Speaker 2: saying something about the weather, Yes, indeed. Well, Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: had said that the Russians would not be bombing Ukraine

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Speaker 2: for the next week because of very cold weather. It's

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Speaker 2: meant to be minus thirty this week, believe it or not.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday the bombing has continued, with fifteen miners killed

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Speaker 2: and when bombs hit a bus. Now recent attacks have

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Speaker 2: left one point two million people without power. A thousand

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Speaker 2: emergency shelters have been set up because of this cold weather.

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Speaker 2: It's now hope peace talks may take place later in

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Speaker 2: the week. But they just seem to be on and

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Speaker 2: off all the time, don't they.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, this month marks the fourth and the adversary

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Speaker 2: of the war, with one point eight million people killed

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Speaker 2: so far.

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Speaker 1: What is this film that King Charles is in?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, he's the star of a new film. Would

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Speaker 2: you believe it or not? That looks at his long

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Speaker 2: campaign on the environment. The King himself gave extensive interviews

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Speaker 2: and filming access over a six month period. Now, of course,

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Speaker 2: the late Queen Elizabeth never gave an interview at all,

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Speaker 2: but that's something that the King and Queen Camilla are changing.

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Speaker 2: It's a ninety minute documentary had its premiere at Windsor

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Speaker 2: Castle with a host of major celebrities including Kate Winslet

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Speaker 2: and Rod Stewart. The film, in fact is launched on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: The King, as Prince Charles's long campaigned for much more

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Speaker 2: to be done about the environment. There's an unusual insight

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Speaker 2: into his frustrations over the slow progress being made. He says,

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Speaker 2: it's rapidly going backwards. I've said that for the last

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Speaker 2: forty years. Anyway, there you go. The film was in

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Speaker 2: fact made with the King's own charity at the King's Trust,

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Speaker 2: So he's still unhappy about the environment and talking out

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Speaker 2: this new film.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you very much, Mike, I appreciate its Mike

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Speaker 1: Piers our UK corresponds. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive,

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