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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge get in the Brady a UK correspondent. Good evening,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you in that.

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Speaker 2: Well, said Ryan, love that attitude.

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Speaker 1: Now the doctor's strike, this could all be called off

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Speaker 1: at the last minute.

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Speaker 2: So yes, I think a combination of factors here. They're

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Speaker 2: reading the room for a start. We've got this strain

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Speaker 2: of a so called superflu which is predicted to get

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Speaker 2: to a tidal wave level next week. It's bad. I

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Speaker 2: mean the government and medical leaders are saying to people that,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you're on public transport, if you're out

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Speaker 2: and about, start wearing face masks again. And I've noticed

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Speaker 2: this the last couple of weeks on the tube in London.

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Speaker 2: Initially I was thinking, okay these visitors, and then it

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Speaker 2: was happening at six am when I was on the

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Speaker 2: tube sitting with you know, Ukrainian builders going to work

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are now wearing face masks because

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Speaker 2: they don't want to get this superflu before Christmas. So

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Speaker 2: junior doctors are unhappy about money again, pay and working

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Speaker 2: conditions and lack of training opportunities in the UK. They've

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Speaker 2: threatened the five strike starting December seventeenth. So what's that

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Speaker 2: next Wednesday for five days and they've got the government

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Speaker 2: over a barrel. And what's happened now, I think the

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Speaker 2: combination of the super flu and the junior doctors basically

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Speaker 2: not having a huge amount of public support, the government

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Speaker 2: has reached out and just said, let's talk. So there's

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Speaker 2: some sort of an offer in the pipeline. Will it

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Speaker 2: be enough to call off a strike at the last minute?

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Now they're dropping like flies from Eurovision. This is a

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Speaker 1: bit of a crisis for them. Now which country is

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Speaker 1: the lightest to pull out?

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Speaker 2: Iceland? So that is now five countries in the space

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Speaker 2: of forty eight hours have said they will not perform

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Speaker 2: next year in May at Eurovision if Israel is allowed

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Speaker 2: to participate. Now the organizers, the European Broadcasting Union, they

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Speaker 2: are adamant that Israel will be allowed to sing. And

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Speaker 2: what's happened now This week Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands

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Speaker 2: and now last night Iceland. Five countries have all come

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Speaker 2: out and said okay, if they're in, we're out. And

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Speaker 2: I think it's just real anger over the impunity with

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Speaker 2: which Israel seems to be allowed to play soccer. Continuing

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Speaker 2: cultural events like Eurovision despite seventy thousand civilians dead in

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Speaker 2: Gaza in two years. So all these countries are making

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Speaker 2: a stand, putting pressure on the organizers who are unflinching

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Speaker 2: so far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about that. I love a good local council,

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Speaker 1: local baro story in London in the UK more generally,

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Speaker 1: but this one in London, and it's a five hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars Rolls Royce on the pavement.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so there is one of the plushest squares in

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Speaker 2: London if you want to buy a little property there,

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Speaker 2: and I'm talking not a massive one. Twelve million dollars

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Speaker 2: is the average starting price for a property on Grosvenor

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Speaker 2: Square in central London. So you can imagine the people

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Speaker 2: who can afford that kind of money. They want to

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Speaker 2: be able to walk the pavements without having to go

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Speaker 2: out into the road because someone from Saudi Arabia has

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Speaker 2: parked a half a minion dollars Rolls Royce. And if

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Speaker 2: you see pictures online of this vehicle, it doesn't it's

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Speaker 2: it's not a classy looking vehicle. It's just like a huge,

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Speaker 2: big blocky chunk of metal blocking the pavement. So they've

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Speaker 2: been inundated with complaints from local residents saying we can't

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Speaker 2: walk on the pavement because of all these supercars everywhere.

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Speaker 2: So the council turned up with a tow truck and

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Speaker 2: it's gone. They realize that, you know, one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty dollars fine for illegal parking ain't gonna touch the

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Speaker 2: sides if you can afford half a mil for a

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Speaker 2: Rolls Royce and you live in Saudi Arabia. So they

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Speaker 2: forgot about just basically thought, let's just not issue a

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Speaker 2: fixed penalty notice on the windscreen here, just get the

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Speaker 2: tow truck out. So they're starting to move them, and

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Speaker 2: funnily enough, this morning we're hearing that Grosvenor Square and

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Speaker 2: other parts of Belgravia and really wealthy bits of central

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Speaker 2: London there's no illegal parking today.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, let's see come you want, let's cancel uspy's

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