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Speaker 1: Now Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent, Good morning, given

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Speaker 1: hither right now Hurt Builders. This is the far right leader.

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Speaker 1: He's pulled out of the Dutch governments now collapsed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was always a rather fractious coalition and what

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Speaker 2: had been going on was an increasing sort of a

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Speaker 2: split between those different government parties and I'm afraid many

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Speaker 2: were not surprised by what we're now getting. So we're

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Speaker 2: likely to get a snap election in the Netherlands. What

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Speaker 2: was happening was that the far right Dutch leader, Hurt

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Speaker 2: Builders put in ten additional asylum measures, that's what he

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Speaker 2: had asked for for the rest of the coalition to

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Speaker 2: vote for. That included a freeze on asylum applications, halting

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Speaker 2: the construction of reception centers, and limiting family reunification, by

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Speaker 2: which I mean one person gets into the Netherlands and

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Speaker 2: then they are allowed to invite the rest of their

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Speaker 2: family in. Now the others it seems we're never going

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Speaker 2: to agree to this. They didn't, and then Builders has

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Speaker 2: walked out and as the largest party, his anti immigration

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Speaker 2: far right PVV party has now left the coalition. That

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Speaker 2: looks very likely now we're going to get this snap election. Some, however,

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Speaker 2: critics are pointing to the fact that in opinion polls

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Speaker 2: the PBB party is losing support. Some would say, and

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Speaker 2: perhaps this is an attempt to gain that support back.

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Speaker 1: They're getting a little too close to the center for

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Speaker 1: the voters lacking. Let's go to Ukraine. I mean another

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Speaker 1: incredible military feat for them. They have blown up a

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Speaker 1: bridge connecting Russia and Crimea.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, just twenty four hours after the so called

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Speaker 2: Spider's Web operation in which one hundred smuggled drones hit

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Speaker 2: a third of Russia's bomber planes deep in the country,

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Speaker 2: today an attack on Crimea's Kirch Bridge. Now to be clear,

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Speaker 2: this is the bridge that connects Russia to Crimea, Crimea

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Speaker 2: which used to be part of Ukraine, and it is

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Speaker 2: absolutely hated. It's a hated symbol for Ukrainian The bridge

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Speaker 2: opened to much fanfare by Vladimir Putin in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: and it has been attacked several times. In October three

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Speaker 2: years ago, a fire broke out on the bridge where

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Speaker 2: a truck loaded with a bomb exploded. In July twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three, Vladimir Putin vowed to respond when two people

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Speaker 2: were killed when Ukraine hit the bridge with drones. Now

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Speaker 2: it would appear that some divers have attached underwater explosives

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Speaker 2: to the foundations. Their pretty dramatic footage has been circulated.

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Speaker 2: There was an initial explosion, there was a little bit

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Speaker 2: of assessment, and then Russia reopened it to Russian traffic,

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Speaker 2: which is instrumental incidentally in rearming and restocking supplies for

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Speaker 2: the attacking force in Ukraine. But no sooner had the

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Speaker 2: traffic been opened up again, there was another explosion, and

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Speaker 2: this one seemed to cause more damage. However, just said

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Speaker 2: that we now believe that the bridge is back reopen,

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Speaker 2: just hours after those two attacks on the foundations.

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Speaker 1: Gavin, thank you very much for that. Gavin Gray are

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Speaker 1: UKA Europe correspondent. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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