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Speaker 1: Devin Gray's are UK correspondent Gavin good evening hither So

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Speaker 1: Zelensky and EU leaders, they've got the show of unity going.

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Speaker 1: They are all singing from the same song ship. We're

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Speaker 1: not quite all of the European leaders, but many of

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Speaker 1: them are joining on board for the coalition.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right, no, not all of them are

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Speaker 2: on the same page on this, of course. Now the

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Speaker 2: US Ukraine talks appear to be heading to Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 2: next week, President Zelenski saying that he hopes it'll be

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Speaker 2: a meaningful meeting. In other words, security guarantees for him

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Speaker 2: and probably mineral agreement rights for America. So a lot

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Speaker 2: at stake here, but he'll come, I think, slightly buoyed

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Speaker 2: by the fact that it's been revealed around twenty countries

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Speaker 2: and now interested in joining what's been called a coalition

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Speaker 2: of the willing to help Ukraine. Now, not all the

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Speaker 2: countries are offering troops necessarily on the ground, indeed, probably

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Speaker 2: far from it, but some could provide other support. They're

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Speaker 2: largely taken from the Commonwealth and from Europe, spearheaded by

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Speaker 2: the UK and France, and the Prime Minister of the

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Speaker 2: UK Sekistama really believes that this is the way forward

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Speaker 2: that once a peace deal is struck, and it does

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Speaker 2: look like we're perhaps edging that way after Ukraine's hand

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Speaker 2: is being forced by the US. How it is implemented,

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Speaker 2: and Europe simply does not trust Vladimir Putin to maintain

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Speaker 2: the peace if there is no peacekeeping force within and

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Speaker 2: over Ukraine. So they want air support, they want troops

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Speaker 2: on the ground. And combined with all this, Europe has

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Speaker 2: announced a massive package of the roughly one point five

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Speaker 2: trillion New Zealand dollars in defense, which the European Commission

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Speaker 2: President Ursula Vanderlion said was important and a watershed moment

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Speaker 2: for Europe.

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Speaker 1: It's got to Germany. We've got five members of a

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Speaker 1: far right group there have been jailed for plotting driver

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Speaker 1: throw the government, kidnap the health minister.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The group were associated with something called Citizens of

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Speaker 2: the Reich, whose followers believed that the German Empire continues

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Speaker 2: to exist today even though it collapsed in nineteen eighteen,

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Speaker 2: and investigators say it was led by Heinrich, the thirteenth

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Speaker 2: Prince Rus, a German Aristocat. Anyway, five members of this

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Speaker 2: group have been jailed. Now four of the group were

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Speaker 2: described as ring leaders, and it has been called a

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Speaker 2: terrorist organization, and what they wanted to do was to

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Speaker 2: use violence to trigger civil warlike conditions in Germany. And

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Speaker 2: they hoped that as they started their campaign they would

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Speaker 2: be joined by disgruntled members of the security forces and

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Speaker 2: also just disgruntled people who would join their campaign. Now,

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Speaker 2: the group had planned to kidnap the health minister called

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Speaker 2: Karl Lautobach. He was an advocate of very strict COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen measures during the pandemic, and the group had said

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Speaker 2: as well that they would be quite happy to kill

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Speaker 2: his bo bodyguards if it was necessary. So this was

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Speaker 2: an important and an enormous threat according to the Interior Ministry.

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Speaker 2: And they'd also planned to sabotage the power grid as

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Speaker 2: well in parts of Germany. So the four defendants described

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Speaker 2: as the ring leaders were sentenced in between five and

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Speaker 2: nine five and eight and a half years in jail.

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Speaker 2: A fifth defendant received a two year ten month sentence

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Speaker 2: following an almost two year trial.

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Speaker 1: Ram goodness, mate, Devin, thank you very much for that,

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Speaker 1: Devin Gray, UK correspondent.

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