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Speaker 1: Given Gray are UK you correspondent with us this evening, Given,

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Speaker 1: good evening, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got a bigger, big announcement coming from the

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Speaker 1: Home Secretary.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you know what this has been so

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Speaker 2: widely leaked Ryan as I'm beginning to think we've seen

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Speaker 2: the whole thing already. But yeah, we're waiting now from

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Speaker 2: the Home Secretary the latest details of a plan to

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Speaker 2: make asylum seekers a much sort of stricter system of

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Speaker 2: how they're managed here in the UK. We're now finding

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Speaker 2: out that the Home Secretary plans for impose what are

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Speaker 2: being called Trump style visa bans on three African countries.

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Speaker 2: In other words, if Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic

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Speaker 2: of Congo do not start to take back illegal migrants

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Speaker 2: from the UK who are being deported, then they will

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Speaker 2: face sanctions blocking their tourists, VIPs and business people from

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Speaker 2: traveling to Britain. Now, in the past, this is something

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Speaker 2: that Donald Trump has done in order to force countries

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Speaker 2: to accept illegals from those kind and the UK and

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Speaker 2: the past has just gone, oh well you're not accepting

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Speaker 2: them back where you should accept them back? Ah, well,

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Speaker 2: there's still here sort of thing. So now this is

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Speaker 2: a sign that this announcement that we're expecting a little

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Speaker 2: later today is going to be much much more far

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Speaker 2: reaching than we thought. We now hear that people will

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Speaker 2: have to be an asylum seeker for twenty years before

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Speaker 2: they granted asylum. It currently stands a permanent residency rather

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Speaker 2: it currently stands at five years. And this is all

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Speaker 2: part of this government showing that it is tough on

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Speaker 2: illegal migration and it is doing something about it. They

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Speaker 2: are absolutely on the floor in the opinion polls, and

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Speaker 2: no doubt now it looks like asylum is going to

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Speaker 2: be one of the big features in the opinion polls

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Speaker 2: for any future election.

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Speaker 1: Kevin House and Sea, can you look saying all of

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Speaker 1: this when you've just you know, for the last I

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Speaker 1: saw it? Andrew with Stam a few weeks the beshing

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Speaker 1: Faraj is a racist for raising the issue and here

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Speaker 1: they are banning, yes, you know, restrictions on ngola.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and here they are doing it exactly the sorts

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Speaker 2: of things he was saying that we should be doing.

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Speaker 2: It's very very odd, but I think it shows the

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Speaker 2: political fever that we're in at the moment on this topic.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely now Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess, head a children's book

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Speaker 1: and scandal comes along, book gets delayed. What's happening now, Well.

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Speaker 2: It looks like it's been withdrawn from sale all together

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Speaker 2: at the moment that we're still waiting actually to hear

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Speaker 2: from the publisher, who's not responded to any requests for comment.

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Speaker 2: So Sarah Ferguson's new book called Flora and Fern Kindness

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Speaker 2: along the Way, initially due to be published on the

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Speaker 2: ninth of October. Then it was put back and Amazon

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Speaker 2: said it would be available from the twentieth of November,

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Speaker 2: so a couple of days time. But it's now no

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Speaker 2: longer listed on the website at all, and there are

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Speaker 2: no plans as yet. It was said to reinstate a

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Speaker 2: new deadline for it to be released, as I said,

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Speaker 2: the publisher, New Frontier Publishing, not responding to requests for comment.

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Speaker 2: Sixty six year old Sarah Ferguson, who of course lost

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Speaker 2: her title as Duchess when her ex husband Andrew mount

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Speaker 2: Batman winsor relinquished his use of the Duke of York title,

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Speaker 2: and now sort of stands with it with a career

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Speaker 2: that has done quite well in children's books, but sort

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Speaker 2: of now stands on a precipice. Will she ever be

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Speaker 2: able to publish again or are the publishers Are the

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Speaker 2: book world people just saying no, you're tainted goods, we

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Speaker 2: won't have you at all. Either way, it's been a

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Speaker 2: nice earner for her in the past, and one wonders

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Speaker 2: how she's going to make that up in future.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. I was as you were talking, thinking, why

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Speaker 1: would anyone buy a children's book from Fugi. You know,

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Speaker 1: of all the role models for your children, is that

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Speaker 1: what you'd point your finger? I don't know, but you

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Speaker 1: said she's done them before and they've sold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have, But that was, of course before all

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Speaker 2: this scandal broke, and of course, you know, being tainted

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Speaker 2: with that, it may make a big impact on her career.

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Speaker 1: Budgie the Little Helicopter, I'm told is one of her

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Speaker 1: books that she's yes, yes, all right. Germany's coalition government

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Speaker 1: agreed to a new military service plan. This is to

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Speaker 1: boost troop numbers after Ring.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a huge amount of talk and wrangling about this,

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Speaker 2: and of course it comes with sensitivity that Germany should

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Speaker 2: have such a strong army after the World wars of

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Speaker 2: the last century. Nevertheless, it's finally got the go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Now the current number of troops is one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty two thousand. It wants to start military service, so

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Speaker 2: the sudden forcing of young men it's focusing on at

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Speaker 2: the moment to join the army for a short period

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Speaker 2: of time as a conscription type thing, and eventually it

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Speaker 2: could possibly be an army of roughly almost half a million.

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Speaker 2: That's using two hundred thousand reservists, but they want to

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Speaker 2: get the regular army up to somewhere over two hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty thousand over the next ten years, so they're

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Speaker 2: doing it in stages. At the moment, the new military

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Speaker 2: service plan will make it compulsory for all eighteen year

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Speaker 2: old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability

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Speaker 2: to serve, but then from twenty twenty seven to undergo

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Speaker 2: medical screening and then in the future to effectively force

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Speaker 2: those people to join. Slightly different rules for young women

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Speaker 2: at the moment, but it's certainly a focus. From next year,

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Speaker 2: all eighteen year old men and women going to be

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Speaker 2: sent a questionnaire and willingness asked about their willingness to

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Speaker 2: join the armed forces, and it will be compulsory for

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Speaker 2: men and voluntary for women. Yeah, big, big questions about

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Speaker 2: German's defense operation with it being such a low payer

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Speaker 2: INTNATO in the past, something that has really caught Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump's eye.

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Speaker 1: And are interesting. Thanks so much, Gavin. Gavin Gray are

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent.

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