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Speaker 1: Vincent mcavinie is our UK correspondent this evening, Evincent.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Do we know yet why that guy stabbed the British

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Speaker 1: Army officer?

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Speaker 2: No, we don't know yet. This was a British Army

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Speaker 2: officer who has stabbed near his barracks in Kent on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: We are told in hospital that he is in a

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Speaker 2: serious but stable condition. He was in his uniform. He's

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Speaker 2: in his forties and he was attacked and near his home.

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Speaker 2: A twenty four year old man has been arrested on

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Speaker 2: suspicion of attempted murder. There were lots of public witnesses

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Speaker 2: to this. It was a pretty horrific incident. He was

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Speaker 2: stabbed multiple times. It's not entirely sure, but the police

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Speaker 2: say they are exploring the possibility of a mental health

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Speaker 2: related offense crisis as it were.

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Speaker 1: All right, listen, what were these just stop oil activists

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Speaker 1: doing at the airport?

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Speaker 2: Well, he Throw airport is not only Briton's but Europe's

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Speaker 2: busiest airport as well, and just off Boyle of course,

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Speaker 2: have been trying to do direct action protests for some

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Speaker 2: time and they were arrested a group of ten of

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Speaker 2: them at Heathrow where they were detained near the airport

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Speaker 2: and taken into custody on suspicion of conspiring to interfere

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Speaker 2: with a site of key national infrastructure under the Public

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Speaker 2: Order Act. So what they think is going to happen

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Speaker 2: was they were going to do something to try and

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Speaker 2: disrupt directly the grounds the two runways. They're perhaps breaking

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Speaker 2: through the fences and then trying, as we've seen with

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Speaker 2: other protests around the world, to sort of glue themselves

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Speaker 2: or attach themselves to runways to try and stop the

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Speaker 2: flights of the planes. But this happens after a number

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Speaker 2: of Just Stop Oil protesters received pretty strong prison sentences

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Speaker 2: long jail terms for five members of that group, sentences

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Speaker 2: of four and five years for disrupting the M twenty

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Speaker 2: five motorway back in twenty twenty two, which has led

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Speaker 2: to some shock in the group about how strong the

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Speaker 2: justice system has come down on them.

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Speaker 1: That makes me more happy than I can tell you.

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Speaker 1: That they are shots. They're getting in trouble from a

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Speaker 1: pr perspective, and so why do these people keep doing this?

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Speaker 1: I mean they are not winning friends.

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Speaker 2: No, they're not on Some say they're sort of hurting

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Speaker 2: the group, I think, especially earlier this summer when the

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Speaker 2: group broke through and spray painted Stonehenge. They used what

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Speaker 2: they said was the non damaging sort of concoction of

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Speaker 2: paint and powder to spray it, but many people were

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Speaker 2: completely alarmed by that. In fact, a Japanese tourist that

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Speaker 2: was there just simply ran over and tried to pull

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Speaker 2: them off. And though the paint has washed off, there

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Speaker 2: was a sort of special kind of a fauna that

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Speaker 2: is on the stones that scientists did think might have

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Speaker 2: been damaged by the spray, but it completely backfired on them.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't anyone that was thought it was a good

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Speaker 2: idea to go to such a sensitive site and trying

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Speaker 2: to face it like that.

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Speaker 1: No too right, Hey, listen, this is quite said, so

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Speaker 1: Andy Murray, that's it.

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Speaker 2: This is it the Paris Olympics. I will be there

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Speaker 2: from this weekend, hopefully see him playing on a Monday. Actually,

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Speaker 2: if he manages to get through to the second round.

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Speaker 2: After a two decades long professional tennis career, it is

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Speaker 2: going to be his final professional tournament. He's played in

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Speaker 2: all the Olympics since Beijing. He's won gold medals and

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Speaker 2: it's somewhere that he's always clearly you know, sometimes some

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Speaker 2: professional sorts people don't really like Olympics, but he's always

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Speaker 2: seemed to really enjoy it, and it will be the

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Speaker 2: end of his career. After he lost outs in Wimbledon recently,

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Speaker 2: he was playing in the doubles with his brother. He

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Speaker 2: was going to play in the mixed levels with Heed

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Speaker 2: around a Carnu and then she called time on that

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Speaker 2: because of an injury. But no, this will be his

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Speaker 2: sort of final swan song, and everyone here in Europe

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Speaker 2: getting pretty excited about the prospect of those Olympics kicking

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Speaker 2: off tomorrow, the big opening ceremony on the Sene River

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Speaker 2: as well, unlike any that's been attempted before, big security

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Speaker 2: concerns for it, but if they pull it off, it

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Speaker 2: could be pretty spectacular. And rumors as well of some

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Speaker 2: of the acts being spotted in the city. Lady Gaga

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Speaker 2: is thought to be performing, and Celine Dion as well,

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Speaker 2: her first performance in years as she recovers or attempts

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Speaker 2: to sort of get back to some form of normality

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Speaker 2: from her stiff person syndrome that she has been suffering from.

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Speaker 1: Vincent, thank you appreciate it. You're off there very shortly,

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Speaker 1: if not tomorrow, So go well and enjoy it that

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Speaker 1: It's Vincent Macaviinney, a UK corresponds.

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