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Speaker 1: Beninda Brady, our UK correspondent, is with us evening.

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Speaker 2: Inda, Hey, heaven right, speaking again, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Putin does now?

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Speaker 2: Things going to be very interesting there obviously will be

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Speaker 2: something and the big fear here is that he may

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Speaker 2: use a nuclear weapon. Now I don't think he's that stupid.

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Speaker 2: I actually spent some time last week interviewing the Russian

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Speaker 2: ambassador to the UK, and you've got to really sit

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Speaker 2: down and think after you speak to these people. And

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Speaker 2: the overriding sentiment I got from half an hour of

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Speaker 2: direct questioning with this guy is they want peace. He

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Speaker 2: said it about four times. Now when you look at

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Speaker 2: what they want, yes, okay, you can say you want piece.

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Speaker 2: He also wants a rather large piece of Ukraine. Now,

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Speaker 2: what he was saying to me was that they would

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Speaker 2: like to talk peace, but at the current boundaries, so

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Speaker 2: basically everyone keeps the land they have as of today,

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Speaker 2: which would mean monumentally gains for the Russians. They'd get

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Speaker 2: basically the whole of don Yetsk, get the whole of

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Speaker 2: lu Hans that keep crying. Yeah, I could see Putin

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Speaker 2: being very happy with that. But the Ukrainians are not

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Speaker 2: going to give an inch. But in terms of what

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Speaker 2: he does next. I think we watch and wait, and

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Speaker 2: it's a really interesting interview in the newspapers today here

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Speaker 2: from the Chief of the Defense Staff, Sir Tony Radikin,

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Speaker 2: and he's calling on people to get resilient and get

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Speaker 2: ready for war. And earlier in the week we had

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Speaker 2: Sweden telling its citizens to prepare for war. So I think,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to be scared mungery,

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Speaker 2: but these are very fraud times in Europe.

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Speaker 1: But into what are the chances that this is propaganda

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Speaker 1: and that it's designed knowing that the Russians will read it.

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Speaker 1: It's designed to send the message that there is resolve.

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Speaker 2: There is resolve. But I think if you look in

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Speaker 2: any kind of critical way of the UK defense forces

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Speaker 2: where they are numerically, they haven't been this small for

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Speaker 2: half a century. The money is not there. Britain can't

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Speaker 2: defend itself. They're pulling projects left, stright and center on

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Speaker 2: the military such side of things, just to save a

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Speaker 2: few hundred million here and there. Everything is going into

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Speaker 2: getting the economy moving and the health service to stop

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Speaker 2: it from crumbling completely. So there's no great appetite to

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Speaker 2: pump money into the military, and I think we're in

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Speaker 2: a very kind of dangerous time as to what he

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Speaker 2: does next. But he's not stupid yet. We know he's

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Speaker 2: we know he's extremely dangerous. He's far from stupid.

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Speaker 1: So I was reading the Telegraph earlier today and the

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Speaker 1: Defense Affair, the Defense and Foreign Affairs editor there was

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Speaker 1: making the case that now that Ukraine can use these

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Speaker 1: long range missiles from the US and the UK, it

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Speaker 1: actually means there is a chance for the first time

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Speaker 1: in quite a while for Ukraine to win. Do you

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Speaker 1: buy that?

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. It's a frozen stalemate. They do need

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Speaker 2: to see this sounds as unpalatable as this sounds to

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Speaker 2: everyone this war. Russia won't win it, Ukraine won't win it.

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Speaker 2: It is completely a frozen stalemate. And you know, I

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Speaker 2: said to the Russian ambassador the other day when I

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Speaker 2: saw him, you know your special operation that was going

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Speaker 2: to take three days, Well, we're now looking down the

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Speaker 2: barrel of a three year anniversary. And of course they

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Speaker 2: pick up and they deflect, and they don't want to

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Speaker 2: answer questions or address time scales. But I think, in

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Speaker 2: all honesty, what we're likely to see, I think at

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Speaker 2: some point in early next year peace talks and then

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Speaker 2: the Russians will say that Ukraine can never join NATO,

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Speaker 2: but had a push, they might be allowed into the

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Speaker 2: European Union. And by the way, we're keeping every inch

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Speaker 2: of land we've stolen from you since February twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, Jeremy Clark's ambastard, isn't he?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big time. So look he's done a lot of good.

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Speaker 2: And I come from a farming family in Ireland, my

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Speaker 2: grandparents and their grandparents and the whole way back where

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Speaker 2: dairy farmers in North County Longford. I've seen firsthand how

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Speaker 2: difficult it is to farm, how it takes over your life.

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Speaker 2: And I think in the UK Clarkson has done extraordinary

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Speaker 2: work showing ordinary people who are not farmers, what goes

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Speaker 2: on on a farm, how expensive everything is. You never

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Speaker 2: get a break, you're tied to the land. But a

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Speaker 2: bit of an own goal. This week he headed off

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Speaker 2: to Westminster to protest against inheritance tax changes brought in

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Speaker 2: by Keir Starmer. And it only affects the four percent

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Speaker 2: of the richest farms in the UK, so you've got

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Speaker 2: to be inheriting north of six million en z dollars

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Speaker 2: before you pay a cent of this new tax. It's

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Speaker 2: not going to affect your average working class farmers at all.

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Speaker 2: And Clarkson was asked the question, isn't it true that

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Speaker 2: you only bought your farm to avoid paying inheritance tax?

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Speaker 2: And Clarkson rounded on the reporter berated her and she

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Speaker 2: was quoting his words back to him. From twenty ten,

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Speaker 2: he gave an interview to the Sunday Time saying it

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Speaker 2: was a great way of avoiding inheritance tax to buy farmland.

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Speaker 2: And he's not the only one. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: very very well healed people in the UK who have

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Speaker 2: invested in a novel money in farmland, and they're not farmers.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Lloyd Weber, you know, great at making. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure he'd know how to get John Deere out

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Speaker 2: of second gear. But there we are.

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Speaker 3: Into thanks very much appreciated Into Brady, UK Correspondent eight.

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Speaker 3: What it did to say the stale the war is

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Speaker 3: at a stalemate. I'm gonna have to sit down and negotiate.

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Speaker 3: And whose policy does that sound like?

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