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Speaker 1: Devin Gray Are UK correspondence with the say, Gevin Hi

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Speaker 1: there he all right, So what is it going to take.

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Speaker 1: What does Israel need to do in order to get

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Speaker 1: these free trade negotiations with the UK going again?

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Speaker 2: Basically to stop the bombing and action in Gaza. That's

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Speaker 2: the message from this UK government. So yesterday they paused

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Speaker 2: the trade talks with Israel, they summoned the ambassador and

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Speaker 2: started to put sanctions on individuals, and today we've learned

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Speaker 2: more about those sanctions. Daniella Weiss is her name, the

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Speaker 2: main one. You may never have heard of her, but

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Speaker 2: she's a far right Israeli settler known as the godmother

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Speaker 2: to the settler movement. With settlers, of course, this is

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Speaker 2: the part of an organization called Homeland that has been

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Speaker 2: sanctioned by this government as well. Vice leads that group,

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Speaker 2: and the vast majority of the international community considers the

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Speaker 2: settlers illegal under international law. In other words, they're occupying

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Speaker 2: world the land that's not there, and this is something

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Speaker 2: that Vice has been absolutely instrumental in doing. The Israeli

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Speaker 2: Foreign Ministry, though, has hit back saying the sanctions are

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Speaker 2: basically unjustified and regrettable and say that the UK's pause

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Speaker 2: of trade talks. Well, they're saying, if you want to

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Speaker 2: harm your economy, that's up to you. But this is

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Speaker 2: an anti Israel obsession, they're calling it. The UK government though,

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Speaker 2: saying the situation in Gaza is quite simply untenable and

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Speaker 2: cannot go on any longer. And yes, they issued a

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Speaker 2: joint statement with France and Canada saying they will keep

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Speaker 2: some concrete steps if things don't change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope. So, okay, listen, what's gone wrong with

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Speaker 1: these airbnb properties in Spain.

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the big issues for young people in

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Speaker 2: Spain has been trying to find somewhere to live, and

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Speaker 2: particularly the larger towns and cities. The average rental has

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Speaker 2: doubled over the last decade. Salaries, though are way behind,

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Speaker 2: They're nowhere near that, so accommodation has become very expensive,

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Speaker 2: and they do say one of the things that has

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Speaker 2: priced them out is that so many apartments in those

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Speaker 2: towns and cities have been turned into airbnb or tourist apartments.

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Speaker 2: Spain is the world's second most popular tourist destination after France,

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Speaker 2: with ninety four million foreign visitors last year, and this

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Speaker 2: government's Pedro Sanchez, the Socialist Prime Minister, is alert to that.

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Speaker 2: He's saying there are too many Airbnbs and not enough homes.

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Speaker 2: So they are now calling for the removal of the

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Speaker 2: listings of nearly sixty six thousand properties on the rental

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Speaker 2: platform Airbnb, saying that they breach regulations for tourist accommodation.

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Speaker 2: They're saying they quote violated various norms regarding housing for

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Speaker 2: tourist use. It's a complicated one and it's a bit

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Speaker 2: vague and why they think they can do it. But

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Speaker 2: already we've seen Madrid court ruling that Airbnb must immediately

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Speaker 2: withdraw from the market almost five thousand of the cited

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Speaker 2: by the ministry there. But it's not just Madrid, it's

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Speaker 2: Andrew Luthia, Catalonia, Valencia, the Basque Country and the Ballyeric

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Speaker 2: Islands all now tackling Airbnb, saying that there are too

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Speaker 2: many Airbnb properties and this cannot go on. Now.

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Speaker 1: Ryanair cannot be serious that they're wanting some people, some

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Speaker 1: of their staff, to pay back money. Are they?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, I think Ryanair is extremely serious about this. Well,

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Speaker 2: what happened is a pay rise was agreed with a

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Speaker 2: Spanish union, and that pay rise was then applied to

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Speaker 2: all flight attendants of Ryanair, which is Europe's largest airline.

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Speaker 2: It's the budget airline based out of Ireland, and that

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Speaker 2: belonged that that pay increase belonged to all flight attendants,

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Speaker 2: regardless of which union they belonged to. Now, interestingly, another

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Speaker 2: Spanish union one a court case a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 2: nullifying the deal, saying that it wasn't fairly done. That

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Speaker 2: you know, you can't just talk to one union and

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Speaker 2: not to the rest of us, so it's nullified. The

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Speaker 2: deal mean, the pay rise is effectively null and void.

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Speaker 2: So Ryanair is now saying, right, thank you, we'll have

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Speaker 2: that pay rise money back. Airline workers basically estimate that

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Speaker 2: they're three thousand euros overpaid if you like, using Ryanair's language,

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Speaker 2: so roughly six thousand New Zealand dollars or more. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: the flight's attendants are being told they must repay the

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Speaker 2: money over a year by taking a sum out of

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Speaker 2: their monthly salary. This, as you can imagine, has been

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Speaker 2: described as fascicaled by one union. Another union isn't happy,

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Speaker 2: but either way, Ryanair not terribly popular with the unions.

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Speaker 2: In Spain as they do try to keep their ticket

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Speaker 2: prices down by doing tough deals on pay rising.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Hey, thank you very much, Givin Gray Agavin, we'll

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Speaker 1: rule check to you in a couple of days. As

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray are UK correspondent.

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