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Speaker 1: Vincent mcavanie is our UK correspondent, Vincent good morning, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Why is Kios Starmer so prickly about Elon Musk saying

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Speaker 1: that civil war is inevitable? Well, what we've seen on

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Speaker 1: social media, particularly on x formerly Twitter, is a lot

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Speaker 1: of unverified video flying about, but also a lot of

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Speaker 1: far right accounts who have been trying to encourage people

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Speaker 1: to take to the streets to conduct this violent thuggery

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Speaker 1: that has been going on across the UK, and Starma

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Speaker 1: obviously is trying to get a grip on this. He's

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Speaker 1: a new prime minister. Elon Musk has been reacting though

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Speaker 1: to directly to accounts, one in particular europe Invasion, which

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Speaker 1: is a far right European website that spreads disinformation very

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Speaker 1: clearly does so along as some other far right accounts,

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Speaker 1: and he also posted a comment saying that civil war

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Speaker 1: is inevitable under a video of violent rights in Liverpool. Now,

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Speaker 1: understandably Kiirs Starmer is not happy with this kind of commentary.

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Speaker 1: We are far from civil war in this country, to

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Speaker 1: be fair to Kiirstarma, but as spokesperson for the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister said that the violence had come from a small

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Speaker 1: minority of people who do not speak for Britain, and

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister did not share the sentiments of the billionaire.

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Speaker 1: So this is I think something we're going to see

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Speaker 1: in the next few days. Actually, this might be sort

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Speaker 1: of Elon must trying to pick a fight before he

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Speaker 1: knows one is coming, because we're likely to have the

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Speaker 1: heads of social media companies, whether it's Twitter, whether it's Meta,

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Speaker 1: being hauled into Downing Street to be asked about what

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Speaker 1: they're doing, because it is a crime in this country

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Speaker 1: to incite racial hatred, both online and in person, and

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Speaker 1: so I think they're going to be asked about how

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Speaker 1: they've operated in the last week since this tragedy in Southport.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys expecting it to continue for another day? Well,

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Speaker 1: we had had a quiet a day on Monday, but

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Speaker 1: overnight there has been rioting or sort of this kind

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Speaker 1: of violence again in Plymouth that's spread there for the

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Speaker 1: first time, and then it's also been taking place in

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Speaker 1: Belfast and Darlington. The intelligence the police had was that

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Speaker 1: there was set to be a spike on Wednesday, but

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Speaker 1: we will see. What is starting to happen now is

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Speaker 1: people have been in court for the first time making

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Speaker 1: their first appearance in magistrates court. Some of them have

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Speaker 1: been slightly shocked that they are not being granted any

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Speaker 1: form of bail, that they are having to be remanded

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Speaker 1: in custody. And I think maybe if word gets out

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Speaker 1: that not only are people being remanded in custody until

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Speaker 1: hearings until trials, which in this country have a huge

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Speaker 1: backlog because of what's going on in our justice system,

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Speaker 1: and they're also looking at facing the toughest of sentencings

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Speaker 1: because that's what's happened recently to climate protesters. That just

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Speaker 1: stop oil people getting maximum prescribed sentences. And I think

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Speaker 1: that is the message coming out from the government that

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Speaker 1: they want to see as much as possible tough sentencing. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I see that the government with you guys, has told

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Speaker 1: the citizens to leave lib On. How many of them

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Speaker 1: are there, Yeah, I mean there is a couple a

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Speaker 1: couple of hundreds of British citizens we think in Lebanon,

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Speaker 1: and that is the word from the UK government. That

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Speaker 1: is what others have said now the US as well Ireland,

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Speaker 1: all in anticipation of potentially a widening conflict between Israel

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Speaker 1: and Hesbala and Iran. We know back in April Iran struck,

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Speaker 1: but the US and a coalition of the UK, France

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Speaker 1: and others managed to sort of effectively thwart entire attack.

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Speaker 1: The US, behind the scenes diplomatically, is trying to rebuild

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Speaker 1: that coalition somewhat and as moving more defense assets into

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Speaker 1: the region. But it does seem like we might not

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Speaker 1: get the same kind of warnings that we got of

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Speaker 1: that strike from Iran and from sources, and so the

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Speaker 1: UK sort of following others now and saying that really,

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Speaker 1: if you don't need to be in that country, it's

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Speaker 1: time to get out because the situation is too unpredictable.

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Speaker 1: What do you make this news? It's pretty good actually,

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Speaker 1: it's appeared in West London. It's sort of the end

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Speaker 1: of a property. He seems to quite like doing things

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Speaker 1: at the moment, a sort of gable ends of properties

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Speaker 1: that's been as modus recently. I think they're slightly harder

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Speaker 1: to remove perhaps, And so there is a sort of

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Speaker 1: support struck that juts out from the building somewhat, and

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Speaker 1: then on top of it he has posted he's sort

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Speaker 1: of done his spray painting of what looks to be

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Speaker 1: a sort of a billy goat, you know, teetering on

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Speaker 1: it with some rocks falling off, and he'd also pointed

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Speaker 1: a CCTV camera which was there. He pointed it up

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Speaker 1: towards the goat. We understand that's now been pointed back

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Speaker 1: down to the owner as to where it needs to

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Speaker 1: point at. But yeah, it's pretty good. It's by q

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Speaker 1: Bridge in Richmond, and you know, he's sort of done

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Speaker 1: a lot of political stuff recently, but this just seems

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Speaker 1: to be sort of a quite a classic thanks he

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Speaker 1: which is just sort of a little bit of an

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Speaker 1: animal humor. Vincent's so good to talk to. You really

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Speaker 1: appreciate about. That's Vincent Megavinny, our UK correspondents this evening.

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