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Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK correspondents with us. Hello, Gevin, Hi there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Stammers is no to a ship.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, that's certainly the way it's looking. Some

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Speaker 2: of the newspapers are reporting that Sirkis Starmer is not

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Speaker 2: going to accept the invitation from Donald Trump to police

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Speaker 2: the waterway known as the Strait of Horn Moves, which

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Speaker 2: of course is blocked because of Iran, and that has

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Speaker 2: led to a massive spike in oil prices. Now it's

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Speaker 2: being reported that the pair Donald Trump and Sekire Starmer

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Speaker 2: had a phone call and that since that phone call,

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Speaker 2: Sekis Starmer was offering mine hunting drones and missile interceptors

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Speaker 2: to keep the shipping route open, but has not offered

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Speaker 2: to place some of the other vessels in the strait

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Speaker 2: in order to effectively police it, to let the tankers

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Speaker 2: and freightes go through whilst trying to protect them from

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Speaker 2: Iranian drones. So it Donald Trump on Air Force one

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Speaker 2: just actually in the last twenty minutes or so, saying

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Speaker 2: he's speaking to about seven countries about police in the waterway.

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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see which countries help in what

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Speaker 2: he called a very very small endeavor that. He also

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Speaker 2: warned in an interview with the UK's Financial Times a

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Speaker 2: little earlier, it would be very bad for the future

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Speaker 2: of NATO if allies don't secure the critical waterway with

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Speaker 2: the US.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are we taking that as a three?

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Speaker 2: Very much so, I would suggest, But of course we've

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Speaker 2: been here before. Last week Donald Trump saying he didn't

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Speaker 2: need Britain's warships. We joined it too late, he'd already

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Speaker 2: won the war. This weekend a completely different Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the problem with heating oil for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Well, heating oil in this country does not come under

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Speaker 2: the regulation of a price cap, which gas and electricity

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Speaker 2: for heating hot water do. So at the moment, those

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Speaker 2: using electricity or gas for heating are going to see, yes,

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Speaker 2: a rise in oil ri in energy prices, but it'll

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Speaker 2: be capped by the government's regulator off GM, and it'll

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Speaker 2: be smoothed out over a long period of time and

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Speaker 2: will probably be much less of a spiking rise than

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Speaker 2: we've seen currently for the oil prices. However, those who

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Speaker 2: use oil for heating in the UK are not under

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Speaker 2: that cap, and therefore they won't benefit from it, and

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Speaker 2: therefore they are seeing these massive spikes in energy prices.

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Speaker 2: People are being told that they go to fill their

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Speaker 2: outdoor oil drum for their heating and are being told

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Speaker 2: it's double or being told there isn't the oil around

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Speaker 2: and they're going to be put on a new contract

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Speaker 2: whichever surprise, surprise is much more expensive. So secure Starma

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Speaker 2: and the UK government to announce some kind of a

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Speaker 2: support for those households, and it is a lot. In fact,

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Speaker 2: in Northern Ireland it's roughly half of all households use

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Speaker 2: oil for heating, so it is pretty extensive in some

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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand homes using it in Northern Ireland, two

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Speaker 2: thirds of all household that actually is in that part

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Speaker 2: of the UK, whereas about three percent of households in

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Speaker 2: England and Wales said oil is their only source of

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Speaker 2: central heating. So it is something that's important to those people.

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Speaker 2: Will wait to see what the government's action.

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Speaker 1: Is now, what is Megan and Harry actually what are

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Speaker 1: they actually going to do about this author that they're

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Speaker 1: unhappy with.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't see at the moment a threat of litigation,

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Speaker 2: but that is at the moment. Basically, there is a

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Speaker 2: new book coming out by Tom Bayo who's a well

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Speaker 2: known royal watcher, and he claims that Queen Camiller told

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Speaker 2: a friend that Meghan had brainwashed Prince Harry. And there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more besides saying Meghan became a divisive agent

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Speaker 2: within the royal family and was seen by the Prince

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Speaker 2: of Wales William and Catherine as a real threat to

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Speaker 2: the future of the royal family. Now a spokesman for

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Speaker 2: Harry and Meghan has seen the excerpts they've started to

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Speaker 2: be published in the Times, and I've really come and

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Speaker 2: hitting back. They're saying that this author is deranged, conspiracy

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Speaker 2: in melodrama, and that it's all absolutely nonsense. Quote. This

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Speaker 2: is someone who has publicly stated the monarchy in fact

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Speaker 2: depends on actually obliterating the Sussexes from our state of life.

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Speaker 2: And here they say Megan and Harry say the language

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Speaker 2: largely speaks for itself, saying that the author had made

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Speaker 2: a career out of constructing ever more elaborate theories about

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Speaker 2: people he does not know and has never met. It's

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Speaker 2: pretty excuriating, but I can see the book selling well.

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Speaker 2: Meghan and Harry remain pretty unpopular for many here in

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Speaker 2: the population.

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Speaker 1: For obvious Reasonskevin good to talk to you. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you in a couple of days.

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