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Speaker 1: Well, the UK government has announced it is creating what's

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Speaker 1: been dubbed a uk IFBI. Mike Pierces our UK correspondents

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Speaker 1: here with the details this evening. Gooday, Mike, so tell

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Speaker 1: us about this new entity.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, that is what it's being called. The plan

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Speaker 2: could have an impact worldwide, according to politicians the governments

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Speaker 2: say here. The National Police Service, as it will be called,

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Speaker 2: will bring together world class talent and state of the

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Speaker 2: art technology to fight national and international crimes such as terrorism,

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Speaker 2: fraud and organized crime. The aims it will work with

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Speaker 2: police forces worldwide. Now, the National Police Service will be

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Speaker 2: run by a Police Commissioner, who will become the most

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Speaker 2: senior police chief in Britain. It will set standards and

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Speaker 2: training for police forces and require new technology such as

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Speaker 2: facial recognition cameras, a controversial move that has provoked fierce

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Speaker 2: criticism over its impact on privacy and human rights.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be very interesting to see how that

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Speaker 1: works and the which it'll be working with. It's international,

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Speaker 1: you know, sister and brother organizations. And that's a political

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Speaker 1: story in the UK as the blocking of a labor

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Speaker 1: politician from standing in a by election.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now his name is Andy Burnham, and he's been

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Speaker 2: blocked from standing as a candidate for an upcoming parliamentary

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Speaker 2: by election, that is, by the body that rules our

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Speaker 2: Labor Party. Now this is highly significant because it's widely

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Speaker 2: thought that Andy Burnham his name, could get elected to

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Speaker 2: the House of If he were elected to the House

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Speaker 2: of Commons, could become a serious challenger to Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Keir Starmer. Burnham is currently mayor of Manchester, one of

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Speaker 2: our biggest cities in the north of the country, and

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Speaker 2: said on Saturday he wanted to stand in the election

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Speaker 2: being held locally as a former MP and government minister,

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Speaker 2: but because of his current role, he needs approval from

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Speaker 2: Labour's National Executive Committee to stand and they have said no.

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Speaker 2: Labour say the party decided to deny Burnham permission to

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Speaker 2: stand to avoid unnecessary mayoral election, which would use substantial

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Speaker 2: amounts of taxpayers money better they say spent on backing

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Speaker 2: the cost of living crisis. The cost of that election

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Speaker 2: could be ten million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Oh very interesting because I've seen him and heard him

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Speaker 1: speaking a few times. He's a very effective communicator, Andy Burnham,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that it's necessarily the right strategy,

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Speaker 1: especially given the fact that Ko Starmer was one of

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Speaker 1: those who voted to block them. But there's a route

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Speaker 1: over a statue for the late Queen Elizabeth. Tell us

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Speaker 1: about that much?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, indeed, well up to one hundred million

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Speaker 2: dollars is to be spent on a massive statue to

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Speaker 2: remember Queen Elizabeth, funded by the UK Government. It's been

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Speaker 2: revealed it will feature her standing rather than sitting on

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Speaker 2: horseback as previously made public. Now the memorial will be

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Speaker 2: on a tiara shaped glass bridge, can you believe? And

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Speaker 2: will be built in Saint James's Park in central London,

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Speaker 2: which is near to Buckingham Palace. But not everybody is happy.

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Speaker 2: The cost of the project has been criticized by the

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Speaker 2: anti monarchy group Republic, who said the Royal should pay

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Speaker 2: for the monument themselves rather than the government out of

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Speaker 2: public funds. King Charles has been kept informed of the

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Speaker 2: plas and consulted on the development, with the final design

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Speaker 2: to be made public in April to coincide with one

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Speaker 2: hundred years of the late Queen's birth.

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Speaker 1: Well, if the government is so concerned about the cost

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Speaker 1: of living and introducing policies to take the cost of

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Speaker 1: living that they won't let Andy Burnham stand as an MP.

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Speaker 1: Surely spending one hundred million pounds or a hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars on a statue might be somewhat excessive.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely right, I think that certainly was the comment here,

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Speaker 2: you know, within the last few hours, people sort of saying,

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Speaker 2: you know, at the actual cost of that mayoral election

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Speaker 2: in Manchester is actually, you know, really small money compared

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Speaker 2: to the billions in the government's annual budget there. So

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, highly controversial and I think both of

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Speaker 2: those issuals will rage on here for some time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Robbie Williams has a new record of Notes, So

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Speaker 1: how's he celebrated?

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Speaker 2: Well, would you believe? Yes, indeed, he entered the European

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Speaker 2: music record books over the weekend by having more number

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Speaker 2: one albums than any other artist. Now for some time,

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Speaker 2: he'd had sixteen chart toppers, the same as the Beatles.

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Speaker 2: Now his latest album, which is called Britpop, shot to

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Speaker 2: number one at the weekend, increasing his lead by one

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Speaker 2: to seventeen. If keios course, he is one of the

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Speaker 2: best selling artists of all time, selling around seventy five

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Speaker 2: million records. He recently revealed plans to tour Australia and

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Speaker 2: New Zealand later in the year, with details still to

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Speaker 2: be announced, but we'll expect that possibly within a few

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Speaker 2: days time. He last toured both countries in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Of course, he shot a famous part of the boy

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Speaker 2: band Take That, who formed in nineteen ninety. Williams left

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Speaker 2: the group five years later, admitting to drink and drug problems.

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Speaker 2: He went on to have a solo career, touring the

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Speaker 2: world to sell out performances. Now across the world that

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Speaker 2: the globe, he's only beaten by Beatles Paul McCartney in

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Speaker 2: selling more albums today. Robbie Williams is fifty one years old,

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Speaker 2: he says, to be worth half a billion dollars, would

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Speaker 2: you believe? And he's married with children. He's currently on

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Speaker 2: holiday in France, where he said he celebrated his chart

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Speaker 2: topping success with now wait for this, a coke zero

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Speaker 2: and a salad. How times for him have changed very much?

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Speaker 1: Is that funny? He said? So much success and you

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Speaker 1: compere with Paul McCartney and the Beatles there, I mean

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Speaker 1: the Beatles made in America, Paul and Robbie Williams never did.

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Speaker 1: But you can have all of those chart toppers and

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Speaker 1: you still haven't correct the US. It's a funny old world,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. Not that he's too concerned with yourself. He's

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Speaker 1: worth half a billion dollars. I think he can probably

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Speaker 1: afford a few more celebratory the coke zeros and salads

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Speaker 1: and the like during his holiday in France. Really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time this evening, Mike. That is UK correspondent Mike.

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