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Speaker 1: Vincent Mecaveny joins us now to talk about what's going

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Speaker 1: on in the UK and Europe.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Vincent, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So Zelensky is and Brussels. He's urging the European Union

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Speaker 1: leaders to release some of this money, that is this

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Speaker 1: frozen Russian money to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.

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Speaker 1: I understand a lot of it is in Belgium and

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Speaker 1: they're not hugely keen on releasing it for fear of repercussions.

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Speaker 1: Where are they are.

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Speaker 2: Well, This meeting is going on in Brussels with all

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Speaker 2: the EU leaders and Zelensky, he is saying that the

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Speaker 2: country will run out of money if they don't get

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Speaker 2: a fresh injection because they're making a lot of their

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Speaker 2: own drones and munitions to fight off Russia. Now two

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten billion euros worth of Russian accets are

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Speaker 2: currently being held in a Belgium based organization. The European

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Speaker 2: nations have been saying for years that this money should

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Speaker 2: be used to fund the war effort of Ukraine. Until now.

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Speaker 2: Belgium has tried to sort of sort of not block this,

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Speaker 2: but has been cautious this because they're saying that they're

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Speaker 2: worried about the repercussions for them, but they're essentially saying, look,

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Speaker 2: if the whole of the EU is on board with

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Speaker 2: this and is willing to sort of take the risk

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Speaker 2: with us, then we'll jump into the unknown and do this.

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Speaker 2: But there are some in the EU, the likes of

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Speaker 2: Victor Awband, the leader of Hungary, who is trying to

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Speaker 2: potentially block this, but Urslvon de Lyon, who is the

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Speaker 2: sort of European Commission chief, has said we're not leaving

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Speaker 2: this summer until we've got a solution to funding this.

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Speaker 2: So there could be some positive news for Ukraine in

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Speaker 2: the next few hours after what has been a really

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Speaker 2: difficult few months with the White House of drifting back

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Speaker 2: into the more Russian perspective.

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Speaker 1: Vincent's schools in England are trying to prevent the radicalization

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Speaker 1: of young men and so teachers are now going to

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Speaker 1: be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is part of strategy to try to stop this,

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Speaker 2: and particularly with the links to extreme pornography. So pornography

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Speaker 2: here in the UK online has been put behind an

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Speaker 2: age barrier. Basically you've seen a massive drop in young

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Speaker 2: people being able to access it, so you have to

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Speaker 2: have a valid ID showing that you're over eighteen. But

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Speaker 2: another part of this has been an announcement today millions

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Speaker 2: of pounds being spent to train teachers to spot the

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Speaker 2: signs of misogyny in the classroom, particularly from the influence

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Speaker 2: of the likes of Andrew Tait, and to try to

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Speaker 2: course correct the behavior at a young age, but also

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Speaker 2: if it's got more severe, special courses that young men

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Speaker 2: can in particular can be sent on to try to

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Speaker 2: sort of deradicalize them from these misogynist, extreme misogynist views.

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Speaker 2: And this is part of a joined up strategy that

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Speaker 2: the government's pursuing. This is a landmark strategy they're saying,

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Speaker 2: eighteen months in the making since they came into government,

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Speaker 2: which looks across department's education, health, other departments as well

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Speaker 2: business to try to tackle violence against women. Two women

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Speaker 2: a week are killed here in the UK because of

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Speaker 2: domestic violence and this is something that the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: in the government here want to make their sort of

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Speaker 2: landmark piece of legislation this year.

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Speaker 1: Will be were very keen to see how that goes. Bencent,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this morning. Have

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