1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK correspondences with us Ello, Gevin, you're cruel, 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: you are. But he's used to it though, so you 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: know I've been stockholm syndering him in Heim for years. Gevin. 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: Now talk to me about Palestine Action and these dudes 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: are going to get arrested. Yes, the police are warning 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: exactly that. So Palestine Action is a group here that 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: supports Palestine and it is being ruled, however, to be 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: a terrorist group here in the UK over actions when 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: they damaged and broke into an RAF base and damaged 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: to RAF aeroplanes which infuriated the government as well as 11 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: slightly embarrassing them about the lack of security around the base. 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: But the group is saying to have a massive gathering 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: on Saturday tomorrow in London, and the Metropolitan Police are saying, look, 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: anyone sharing support for the group can expect to be arrested. 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: Now as it's being advertised that hundreds of people are 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: expecting to turn out for the demonstration, then this could 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: be messy and very busy. And there's also talk that 18 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: the group organizing the march and the gathering is saying, 19 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: let's really stretch the police resources that day to the 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: very limit. In other words, causing problems. That way, they've 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: denied that is their aim. By the way, they just 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: say it's a peaceful protest. But either way, this belonging 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: to this group, membership of this group, it is banned 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: under terrorism laws and that means that membership or support 25 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: for Palestine action is a criminal offense punishable buy up 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: to fourteen years in prison. Such as the strictness of 27 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 1: the terrorism legislation, Let's see exactly how the police cope 28 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: on Saturday. Incidentally, on Sunday, the British Board of the 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: Board of Deputies of British Jews is marching as well 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: onto Downing Street and they're angry at the government saying 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: it could recognize the Palestinian state. It's September. Now, what 32 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: is going on with the Chinese embassy? Do you think? 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: Very good question. When China put out plans for what 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: I can only describe as a super embassy in the 35 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: heart of the financial district in London, lots of people 36 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: were concerned and raising lots of questions about security. Now, 37 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: if it gets the go ahead, this super embassy in 38 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: the Royal Mint Court, in the heart of the UK's 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: financial institutions, there are fears for security because some believe 40 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: that China might try to infiltrate the UK's financial system 41 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: by tapping into fiber optic cables carrying very sensitive data 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: for firms in the City of London, all those financial 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: firms and so forth. This is a massive application because 44 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: it involves twenty thousand square meters. It would be the 45 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: largest embassy anywhere in Europe. There is a cultural center 46 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: in there housing for two hundred staff, but in the basement, 47 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: behind security doors, there are rooms which on the plans 48 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: have no identified use, and indeed large parts of the 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: plans are blacked out, you know, just just left blank. 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: And that is why the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner 51 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: has given China and its planning representatives two weeks to 52 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: explain why parts of its plans for a new mega 53 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: embassy have been blanked out. They want to know what 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: those blanks are and are demanding that before they go ahead, 55 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: even threatening that a new hard perimeter around the embassy site, 56 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: which the Chinese saying they need for security and to 57 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: prevent unregulated public access where that may need a separate 58 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: planning application as well. So this is not looking particularly 59 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: good for relations between the two countries. Kevin, Now do 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: you think that the Homelessness Minister was right to raise 61 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: the money that raised the rent or not? Well, there 62 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: are ways of raising rent on a property here that 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: have been really tightened up by the current government. They 64 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: are trying to make it much more life, much easier 65 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: for tenants and much harder for landlords, and it's been 66 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: one of their main key pledges in their manifesto that 67 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: they have acted on now they're in power. So when 68 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: the Homelessness Minister Russianara Alley was said in the newspaper 69 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: to have had a couple of places to rent out, 70 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: but one of them, she said that it was alleged 71 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: that she had moved tenants out of and then a 72 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: few weeks later relisted the property at a one four 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: hundred New Zealand dollars a month higher rental value. In 74 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: other words, that there was the allegation she'd deliberately kicked 75 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: out the tenants, got them out, waited a little bit 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,239 Speaker 1: and then deliberately hiked the rent up. Now, of course 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: tenants and landlords can charge what they want, but in 78 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: this country it's illegal to kick people out in order 79 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: to put the rent up, like that, and so consequently 80 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: I think it was a matter of time before she 81 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: had to step down. And indeed she's also on homelessness charities, 82 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: so the opposition party saying she's got go for those 83 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: this is deep hypocrisy. Now she said, no, no, no, 84 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: What I was doing was I was trying to sell 85 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: the property. So I said to them, look I'm trying 86 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: to sell it. They moved out voluntarily. I couldn't sell 87 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: the property, so then I re rented it. But yes 88 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: I did put the price up. Either way, it looked 89 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: really bad on the government and really bad on her. 90 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: It really does. Kevin, You have yourself a lovely weekend. 91 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: We'll check to you on Monday. Look after yourself, Kevin Gray, 92 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: how are you k corresponding? For more from Hither Duplessy 93 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: Alan Drive, listen live to news talks. It'd be from 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.