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Speaker 1: Gavin Gray, UK correspondent with US Now, hey, Kevin, either

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Speaker 1: have that So how serious are they about the thing?

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Speaker 1: You fail your eyesight test at seventy in you're off

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Speaker 1: the roads?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very serious. I think this is something this government

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Speaker 2: is now pushing towards it. It comes off the back

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Speaker 2: of an inquest into the deaths of four people caused

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Speaker 2: by drivers with failing eyesight that saw one coroner call

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Speaker 2: the UK's licensing system the laxist in Europe. Indeed, the

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Speaker 2: UK is said to be one of only three European

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Speaker 2: countries to rely on self reporting of eyesight or visual

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Speaker 2: conditions affecting the ability to drive, and this government says

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Speaker 2: that is not good enough. So the coroner themselves were

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Speaker 2: saying that in no other circumstance would we accept one

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Speaker 2: six hundred people dying a year, with thousands more seriously injured,

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Speaker 2: costing the NHS, the National Health Service, more than four

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Speaker 2: point four billion New Zealand dollars. And so that's why

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Speaker 2: they're looking at this. England and Wales coming into line

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Speaker 2: with Scotland on other matters, reducing the drink drive limit

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Speaker 2: and also introducing penalty points for passengers not wearing a

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Speaker 2: seat belt, So it is a much much tougher landscape

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Speaker 2: that they're looking to bring in here for those on

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Speaker 2: the roads. Plenty of people supporting it, other people saying, well,

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Speaker 2: you're taking away a lot of people's independence. They might

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Speaker 2: be perfectly able to drive if they actually got some

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Speaker 2: glasses or whatever, but this government seems pretty tough on

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Speaker 2: doing that. You must do that before you get out

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Speaker 2: on the road, and that seems pretty sensible.

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Speaker 1: Really, How long is it going to take the courts

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Speaker 1: to clear these what like five hundred odd people are

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Speaker 1: listed at the protest.

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Speaker 2: A long long time. The courts are already pretty backed

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Speaker 2: up here, and we're being told our prisons are fall

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Speaker 2: to capacity, hence the early release programs we've been seeing

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Speaker 2: over the last few months. However, the fate of the

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Speaker 2: five hundred and thirty two who were arrested on Saturday

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Speaker 2: for supporting a group called Palestine Action remains unclear. Now.

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Speaker 2: Palestine Action is simply a group that supports Palestine and

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Speaker 2: what's happening in Gaza, trying to help the people of Gaza. However,

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Speaker 2: the government prescribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, and

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Speaker 2: therefore membership of or support for it is criminal and

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Speaker 2: it can be punished by up to fourteen years in prison. Now,

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Speaker 2: on Saturday this weekend, outside Parliament, loads of people gathered

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Speaker 2: and at one o'clock they all suddenly wrote on these

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Speaker 2: signs that they had brought with them something like I

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Speaker 2: oppose genocide, I support Palestine action, at which point the

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Speaker 2: police moved in and arrested them five hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: one for displaying placards in support of the group. The

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Speaker 2: rest were assaulting police officers. Just six arrests for assaulting

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Speaker 2: police officers, two for breaching public order conditions, one for

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Speaker 2: obstructing a constable, and one for a racially aggravated public

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Speaker 2: ord a fence. Now, this is the largest number of

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Speaker 2: arrests made by the police Metropolitan Police on a single

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Speaker 2: day in the last ten years. And Heather it was

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Speaker 2: no student protest. The average age of those arrested was

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Speaker 2: fifty four and the majority of them were aged between

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Speaker 2: sixty and sixty nine. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Hey, so why did the restaurant association the Italian ones

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Speaker 1: send a lissa to the UK ambassador.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty angry about this. So the Italian's very

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Speaker 2: proud of their food, but the UK Good Food Guide

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Speaker 2: published a recipe for a traditional Roman dish and according

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Speaker 2: to the hospitality sector in Italy, they got it wrong

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Speaker 2: and they're mad about it. And so the dish that

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Speaker 2: is caccio a pepe was described as having four simple

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Speaker 2: ingredients spaghetti, pepper, parmesan and butter. Oh no, said the

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Speaker 2: association representing restaurants in Italy. It only has three pasta,

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Speaker 2: pepper and pecorino. Pecorino is an Italian hard cheese. So

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Speaker 2: all they've done in the Good Food Guide one is

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Speaker 2: put parmesan and butter in instead of this other Italian

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Speaker 2: cheese pecorina, more difficult to get hold of here in

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Speaker 2: the UK. They also describe the Good Food said it's

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Speaker 2: a sort of simple dish that could be whipped up

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Speaker 2: for a speedy lunch. The Association of Italian Restaurant says, no,

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Speaker 2: this is to be enjoyed. It takes time to get

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Speaker 2: it right. You can't just quickly whip it up for lunch.

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Speaker 2: And you wouldn't believe. They've actually written a letter to

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Speaker 2: the UK Ambassador Edward Llewellin to complain, as well as

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Speaker 2: the UK Good Food website.

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Speaker 1: Ah good on them, you know what they love their

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Speaker 1: food I Gevin, thanks so much. Devin Gray, UK correspondent.

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