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Speaker 1: Vincent mecavinnie is our UK correspondent and he joins us now, Hello, Vincent,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. The whole world does a gaget the two

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Speaker 1: children did in the knife attack in Southport? What do

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Speaker 1: you know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a horrific story. It is the summer

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Speaker 2: holidays here in the UK now, and these children were

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Speaker 2: attending a Taylor Swift themed dancervent in Southport, Merseyside, which

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Speaker 2: is in the northwest of England. We understand that a

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Speaker 2: seventeen year old boy from Lancashire, who was wearing a

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Speaker 2: COVID mask, was able to access the facility because they

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Speaker 2: have to have the door locked for fire safety reasons,

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Speaker 2: and he then went on a horrific rampage. He's believed

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Speaker 2: he killed two children. Nine were injured. Six are said

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Speaker 2: to be in a critical condition, and two adults who

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Speaker 2: are thought to be those involved with running the class,

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Speaker 2: who were trying to protect the children and to stop

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Speaker 2: the knifeman, have also been injured. They are said to

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Speaker 2: be in a critical condition, all of them in hospital

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Speaker 2: at the moment. The seventeen year old is under arrest.

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Speaker 2: He has not been yet charged. Police say they do

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Speaker 2: not know yet the motive for the attack, but it

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Speaker 2: has not been treated as terror related and obviously the

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Speaker 2: local community is incredibly shocked. The Prime Minister as well

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Speaker 2: as the King and Queen have led tributes offering their

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Speaker 2: heartfelt condolences to what has a really horrible start to

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Speaker 2: the summer holidays here in the UK.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it should have been a joyous day for young

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Speaker 1: kids and it ended up being a very very terrible day.

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Speaker 1: Will follow their story very closely, and digerally want to

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Speaker 1: know his motive. Now we have a fan lift just

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Speaker 1: to risk over the French railway vandalism.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. Well France has managed to recover from

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Speaker 2: that damage quite quickly. They got their trains back up

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Speaker 2: and running by Monday, but of course it wasn't the

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Speaker 2: start that they wanted to their Olympics, having about eight

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand people have their journeys disrupted. Now, what's been

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Speaker 2: strange is that the French government haven't come forward and

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Speaker 2: actually said who has done it, and no one has

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Speaker 2: claimed responsibility, So there was thoughts of is it a

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Speaker 2: political group, is it sort of an eco group, or

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Speaker 2: is it a foreign government perhaps Russia deciding to be

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Speaker 2: a bit nefarious at the start He's games, but it

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Speaker 2: was curious that no one had come forward. Now yesterday

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Speaker 2: we learned that on Monday, a sorry, on Monday, a

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Speaker 2: Ultra Left militant was arrested in northwest France. He had

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Speaker 2: been behaving suspiciously near a railway line and when he

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Speaker 2: was detained, officers who searched the man's car found technical

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Speaker 2: guide suppliers, a set of universal keys, and literature linked

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Speaker 2: to the Ultra Left. He was twenty eight years old

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Speaker 2: from the city of Rua, and he's now being questioned.

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Speaker 2: So it is unclear yet whether or not he was

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Speaker 2: involved with the group that did this on Friday, or

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Speaker 2: of this as someone else who's decided to try and

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Speaker 2: take advantage of it, seeing that someone else has done

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Speaker 2: this and has also tried to get in on the act.

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Speaker 2: But now the tejureve, the famous French system, it does

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Speaker 2: seem to be back up and running at full strength,

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Speaker 2: because that is the primary way of getting around France

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Speaker 2: to all the events has come not in Paris for

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Speaker 2: the Olympics, for the spectators here.

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Speaker 1: You should and you should rule am perfectly. I think

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Speaker 1: you've got some French and you mate.

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Speaker 2: I might have grown up in Luxembourg for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. And the other thing is you're

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Speaker 1: in Paris right now, so how's your Olympics.

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Speaker 2: I am in Paris. It has been a fantastic few days.

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Speaker 2: I'm sad to go home today. We started with that

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Speaker 2: opening ceremony. It was unique. It's possibly the best way

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Speaker 2: to describe it. It was very very wet. I don't

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Speaker 2: think I've ever been more soaked through.

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Speaker 1: And it was very very long.

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Speaker 2: It was very very long now as I understand it,

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Speaker 2: they'd never done a full technical rehearsal, and I think

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Speaker 2: it overran significantly by about thirty to forty minutes, because

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Speaker 2: you know, going about on boats isn't the quickest way

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Speaker 2: of travel sometimes that you're having to sort of wait

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Speaker 2: for that horse to go through the entire length of

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Speaker 2: central Paris, and then you know that boat with Serena

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Speaker 2: and Nadal where they were getting soaked and it was

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Speaker 2: bumping the wave that had to come back up. So

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Speaker 2: it was a bit long. I'm glad that I was

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Speaker 2: just a reporter and managed to watch it for free,

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Speaker 2: because I'd be a bit disappointed if i'd paid. If

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Speaker 2: you were in a stadium and you pay, you know,

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Speaker 2: you see everything in the round, don't you see the

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Speaker 2: whole couple of hours. Whereas the people that I was

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Speaker 2: with that had paid tickets, they could just see, you know,

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Speaker 2: one little bit of a performance, the performance where you

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Speaker 2: saw the Marie antoinette, so we could sort of see

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Speaker 2: that building and that was it, and then we saw

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Speaker 2: the boats of teams of course, but the rest of

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Speaker 2: the time we were just standing in the rain watching

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Speaker 2: the big screen to get to get the whole experience.

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Speaker 2: So that was a little disappointing. But the weather has

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Speaker 2: turned nice since then and all the events I've been to,

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Speaker 2: the rugby sevens at the South of France absolutely sold

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Speaker 2: out electric atmosphere. I think that's been something great actually

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Speaker 2: that we've had trouble. We know, we had this in

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Speaker 2: London where there were big seats, patches of seats that

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Speaker 2: were empty. I think they've cracked down a little bit

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Speaker 2: on the corporate hospitality. The seats were much more reasonably

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Speaker 2: priced this time. Every event i've she's been packed. Today.

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Speaker 2: There are no tickets available apart from handball if you

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Speaker 2: want to go to anything last minute, but at the

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Speaker 2: beach volleyball of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday and yesterday

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Speaker 2: was at roll on Garriss for the tennis. It's been

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Speaker 2: really well managed, lots of friendly volunteers. They're doing a

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Speaker 2: real party atmosphere, lots of music and djaying in the

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Speaker 2: little breaks between sets or in between games of the

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Speaker 2: sport that you're doing. And the French seems we've really

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Speaker 2: got on board with it.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, Okay, Vincent Mecavinnie, I thank you.

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