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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray. Are UK correspondents with us right now? Hey

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Speaker 1: Kevin either he yes, a but worrying are you? Your

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Speaker 1: inflation rate's gone up again?

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Speaker 2: Yes, it has only a little bit and it was predicted,

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Speaker 2: but it is bad news. Prices have risen by two

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Speaker 2: point two percent in the year to July. That's up

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Speaker 2: from two percent and it's two point zero percent, which

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Speaker 2: is the official target of the Bank of England. So

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Speaker 2: although this was widely expected, it's thought largely to be

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Speaker 2: due to prices of gas and electricity falling by less

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Speaker 2: than they did a year before, so it's kind of

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Speaker 2: an odd anomaly. The bank does expect inflation to rise

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Speaker 2: further this year before falling back again. And of course

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Speaker 2: that's interesting because we have had one interest rate cut,

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Speaker 2: only a little bit, but the first one for many

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Speaker 2: many months, and that was meant to try and calm

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Speaker 2: and encourage the economy, but it has potentially boosted inflation again.

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Speaker 2: So at two point two percent, well, let me go

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Speaker 2: around a few countries. Germany two point six percent from

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Speaker 2: two point six percent, the Eurozone two points six percent,

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Speaker 2: US three percent, so we are keeping it down, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: our rise will be of concern.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, On the bright side, though, unemployment is looking a

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Speaker 1: lot better.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is. It's an interesting one this is unemployed

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Speaker 2: because the figures are really quite mixed. Unemployment was four

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Speaker 2: point two percent for the three months to the end

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Speaker 2: of June. That's down to four from four point four percent.

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Speaker 2: But interestingly, wage growth has continued to slow. That's now

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Speaker 2: got an annuate of five point four percent, the weakest

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Speaker 2: for around two years. What does this mean? Well, people

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Speaker 2: are saying we shouldn't give too much weight to the

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Speaker 2: job figures at the moment because we just think things

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Speaker 2: are tentative between growth and not growing very much. So

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Speaker 2: this interest rate cut two five percent from five and

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Speaker 2: a quarter percent earlier this month is another interesting thing.

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Speaker 2: The first reduction for four years. Will that boost growth?

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Speaker 2: Will that encourage people to borrow and therefore lead to

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Speaker 2: businesses growing well? That will have to wait to see.

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Speaker 2: But the slow growth wage is come after huge pay

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Speaker 2: demands and indeed today the government is said to be

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Speaker 2: intervening in a long running pay dispute with the rail

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Speaker 2: unions and while some criticize the government are fearing a

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Speaker 2: massive over inflation pay rise for them.

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Speaker 1: Now Givin explain to me this briastfeeding thing they're doing.

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Speaker 2: At Dublin Zoo, yeah, lovely. So apparently orangutang's learn by

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Speaker 2: mirroring behavior, and when a nineteen year old orangutang called

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Speaker 2: Modeure gave birth to a healthy male baby at the

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Speaker 2: end of July at Dublin Zoo, there was big cheer

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Speaker 2: and big smiling faces. But sadly the mother has not

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Speaker 2: been breastfeeding her young baby, and over the past few

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Speaker 2: months the zoo has been arranging a program which has

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Speaker 2: now kicked in and thirty the new mothers are taking

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Speaker 2: terms to breastfeed their children behind glass, of course, but

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Speaker 2: in front of the pregnant orangutang, hoping they will be

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Speaker 2: able to encourage and she will learn the lactation process

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Speaker 2: from them. Modieu this orangutang has previously given birth to

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Speaker 2: two babies in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two, but

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Speaker 2: apparently the zoo said, well, she didn't really exhibit the

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Speaker 2: necessary maternal qualities and both died, and that's why they're

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Speaker 2: hoping this particular baby will be different if she can

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Speaker 2: pick up on the big hints of humans breastfeeding right

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Speaker 2: outside her window. Now she comes to the window to

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Speaker 2: have a look at what's going on. So if this

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Speaker 2: is true that orangutang's mirror behavior, then maybe this may work. Incidentally,

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Speaker 2: this originally started with a worker at the zoo breastfeeding.

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Speaker 2: She convinced eight colleagues to help out as well. They

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Speaker 2: then went on a group chat and she said, my

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Speaker 2: phone didn't stop bringing. The next day, thirty women had

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Speaker 2: signed up. A wrota was created. Who knew breastfeeding moms

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Speaker 2: might be the secret to this little baby orang attag's life.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's quite possible the orangutans like, what the

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Speaker 1: hell is going on with all these people out there? Gavin,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much as always, talk to you in

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Speaker 1: a couple of days. Gavin Gray, UK correspondent. For more

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