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Speaker 1: Devin Gray UK corresponds with us now even in Gavin,

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Speaker 1: Hi there, Heather, brilliant news for you guys. Your inflation's

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Speaker 1: back down to the two percent mark.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's been sometime getting there. Two percent is the

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Speaker 2: target that the Bank of England has been set, the

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Speaker 2: ones that control the interest rates, and that decision as

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Speaker 2: well is now going to be an interesting one after

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Speaker 2: these figures came out, So it marks a fall from

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Speaker 2: two point three percent, and it's the month ago the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister had called a general election on the day

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Speaker 2: April's inflation figures showed a continued decline. This will really

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Speaker 2: add to the debate about the economy and whose hands

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Speaker 2: it is safest in as we rattle towards our general

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Speaker 2: election in less than two weeks now. So the set

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Speaker 2: of figures for may Do, however, show a headline rate

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Speaker 2: of inflation at two percent, and that is below most

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Speaker 2: of the rest of the G seven the advanced economies

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Speaker 2: apart from Italy and food prices though are still twenty

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Speaker 2: five percent high rather than at the beginning of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. Petrol prices are on the way up again,

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Speaker 2: so underlying figures for services inflation and core inflation are

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Speaker 2: what lots of people look at, and they are a

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Speaker 2: lot higher three point five percent of core inflation and

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Speaker 2: five point seven for services. So you know, inflation is

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Speaker 2: a difficult topic, but it's one that will give this

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Speaker 2: government a shot in the arm, though the opinion polls

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Speaker 2: suggests they are going to be wiped out at the

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Speaker 2: general election on the fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: Totally. Hey, these allegations against the UK's richest family in

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Speaker 1: Switzerland sound pretty serious.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, I mean you might think that the Royal

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Speaker 2: family is perhaps the richest family in the UK. You

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Speaker 2: would be wrong. It is the Hinduja family. They are

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Speaker 2: a family of business people and they have an estimated

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Speaker 2: wealth of roughly seventy eight billion New Zealand dollars. However,

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Speaker 2: they're in Switzerland and in court accused of exploitation and

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Speaker 2: human trafficking. Basically this relates to the fact or they

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Speaker 2: have imported others from India to look after their children

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Speaker 2: and household and it's alleged that Prakash and Camal Hinduja,

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Speaker 2: together with their son Aj and his wife, have confiscated

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Speaker 2: their passports and paid them as little as roughly sixteen

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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars for an eighteen hour day and allowed

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Speaker 2: them little freedom to leave the house. Now they've reached

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Speaker 2: a financial settlement over the exploitation bit, but it's the

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Speaker 2: trafficking charges, which are very serious in Switzerland, which are

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Speaker 2: what is now up for grabs and being debated in court.

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Speaker 2: They deny any wrongdoing, but the court has heard that

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Speaker 2: they are hardly the servants are hardly allowed to leave

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Speaker 2: the house and only with the permission of the Indujas,

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Speaker 2: and that some would say is effectively human trafficking. And

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Speaker 2: so this case likely to go on for a few

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Speaker 2: more days.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of rich people, how has this Arius's fortune

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Speaker 1: being divided up?

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Speaker 2: Well, this is an amazing story. So a lady called

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Speaker 2: Marlene Engel, who's thirty two years old, made headlines in

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Speaker 2: January because she's being inheriting some forty five million New

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Speaker 2: Zealand dollars worth. And she's turned around and said, actually,

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Speaker 2: do you know what I don't want it. It's money

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Speaker 2: from my grandmother. I haven't worked for it. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that we should have such inheritance laws in the

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Speaker 2: UK where you can inherit so much money. And so

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Speaker 2: she set up a momentum Institute, which effectively looked at

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Speaker 2: a group of fifty people to work out how to

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Speaker 2: distribute the millions that she's inherited. And now we know

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Speaker 2: where it's going to go. And it's a fascinating list

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Speaker 2: of different organizations seventy seven in total, as you would

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Speaker 2: can imagine charities but also think tanks dealing with a

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Speaker 2: range of environmental protection, education, integration, health and social issues,

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Speaker 2: as well as poverty and homelessness. In Austria. The smallest

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Speaker 2: donation is roughly for eighty thousand New Zealand dollars for

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Speaker 2: an initiative to support database reporting on climate change, but

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Speaker 2: as I said, the total amount being given way is

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Speaker 2: over roughly the forty five million New Zealand dollar mark,

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