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Speaker 1: Brill and Bridge rich In the Brady's a UK europe correspondent.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, Hey, Brian, loved it to speak to you

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Speaker 1: again and to you. So we've had a big day

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Speaker 1: of an outthit from Donald Trump, the terrorist etc. But

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Speaker 1: the big one Ukraine and the pausing of military aid

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Speaker 1: to Ukraine's military into its frontline forces, sending shotwives all

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Speaker 1: around the world as you can imagine. But how are

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Speaker 1: they responding in Europe? What's the reaction there?

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Speaker 2: Well, shock, which I'm surprised by because we knew this

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Speaker 2: was coming. I mean, he was saying this on the

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Speaker 2: campaign trail. You could see what was happening on Friday night,

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Speaker 2: the ambush in the White House. So he's just following

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Speaker 2: through on everything he has said. So now we know

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Speaker 2: now we know that Trump does not want to help

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Speaker 2: Ukraine in any way, and effectively, what they're doing is

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Speaker 2: trying to bully Zelenski into accepting Russia's peace steal. And

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Speaker 2: Russia's peace steal involves and I know this because I've

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Speaker 2: spent many hours with the Russian ambassador interviewing him in London,

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Speaker 2: and he has a list of and it's obviously a

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Speaker 2: Kremlin dictated list of what they will do for peace.

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Speaker 2: So Russia effectively wants to keep all of the land

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Speaker 2: it has invaded and stolen in the last three years,

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Speaker 2: in addition to Crimenia Crimea, which had stolen twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: No NATAL membership for Ukraine, no European Union membership, and

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Speaker 2: Zelenski must go. So that's just the beginning of the

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Speaker 2: Russian hit list. Trump seems to think that this is

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Speaker 2: all fine. So what we're seeing now is France and

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Speaker 2: the UK step up, and I think there will be

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Speaker 2: an alternative peace proposal put forward. They're working closely with Zelenski.

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Speaker 2: I think we'll see Italian peacekeepers, French, British, perhaps Norwegian

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Speaker 2: and Swedish. I was in Ireland for the weekend. Maybe

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Speaker 2: even an Irish contingent as well, with peacekeepers in Lebanon.

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Speaker 2: So if Trump has done one thing, he has made

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Speaker 2: Europe more united.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. But that's what they've been wanting for a very

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Speaker 1: long time, the Americans, right, They've wanted Europe to step

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Speaker 1: up and to play its part, and he's now forcing

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Speaker 1: their hand. What have to Ukraine in the meantime If

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Speaker 1: this military aide stops, does Europe have the resources in

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Speaker 1: the way withal to get the military aide that's needed

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Speaker 1: to Ukraine to keep the fighting going.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is the question. I mean, the UK military

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Speaker 2: is on its knees after fourteen successive years of underfunding

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Speaker 2: under the Conservatives, So the military here they would really

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Speaker 2: be scrabbling around to even get a peacekeeping force together.

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Speaker 2: And I've spoken to senior leaders on my TV show

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Speaker 2: roundtable in the last six months and they all say

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Speaker 2: the same thing. UK military leaders from here are saying that,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you're looking at a peacekeeping force of

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Speaker 2: thirty thousand men, they can't stay there indefinitely. You need

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Speaker 2: another thirty thousand training to go in and another thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand recovering from coming out. So they're doing the numbers.

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Speaker 2: Europe is trying to pull its resources and it needs stating.

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Speaker 2: The number one country in Europe for support of Ukraine

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Speaker 2: is actually Germany. They've given the most in terms of

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Speaker 2: money and military So I guess if anything, from Friday

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Speaker 2: night they have sharpened the focus of Europe to come together,

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Speaker 2: But how much is left in the European pot. Ultimately

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Speaker 2: we're all going to be chipping in more.

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Speaker 1: And into this being tributes to the Scottish painter Jack Vitriano.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's passed away at the age of seventy three

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Speaker 2: at a house in France, and he was an extraordinary man.

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Speaker 2: If the name doesn't ring any bells, check out his artwork.

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Speaker 2: The art establishment here hated Jack Vetriano. They didn't like

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Speaker 2: the fact that he was a working class guy. He

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Speaker 2: used to be a mining engineer at the age of

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Speaker 2: sixteen and he taught himself how to paint. His first

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Speaker 2: girlfriend said to him one day, and it was a

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Speaker 2: comment that stayed with him his entire life. He's from

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Speaker 2: a small town in Fife, in Scotland, and the girlfriend

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Speaker 2: apparently said to him, if you don't do something with

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Speaker 2: your life, you're going to be stuck here forever and

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Speaker 2: you'll do nothing. So he signed up for an art

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Speaker 2: class at the local school, taught himself how to paint,

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Speaker 2: and he started copying the mass and then he decided

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Speaker 2: on his own style. And the art establishment they never

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Speaker 2: showed his portraits in the National Gallery in London, in

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Speaker 2: the Gallery in Edinburgh, but he had the Last Laughters.

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Speaker 2: One painting in particular he's famous for called the Singing Butler.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. It was sold about twenty years

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Speaker 2: ago when it last came up for auction for about

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Speaker 2: one point four million en z. And would you believe

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Speaker 2: if Jack Vetriano had the last laugh, because that one

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Speaker 2: painting alone was bringing him in in royalties every year

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Speaker 2: in terms of prints and pictures and postcards people who

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Speaker 2: copied of it. One million end z every year of

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Speaker 2: his life off the back of a painting he made

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Speaker 2: thirty three years ago.

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Speaker 1: Good on him. Now, Menchester United fans we talk a

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Speaker 1: lot about Menchester United, and said Jim Redcliffe. He's in

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Speaker 1: the firing line again, this time not from the establishment

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Speaker 1: but from the fans. I have a ticket prices.

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Speaker 2: Yes. So they got dumped out of the FA Cup

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Speaker 2: the other night, unceremoniously by Fulham, a home match which

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Speaker 2: they on paper years ago man United with have rolled

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Speaker 2: over Fulham. Fulham came one on penalties. United were the

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Speaker 2: cup holders. They are out and the chant went around

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Speaker 2: the ground. I won't use the language that was used,

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Speaker 2: but Ratcliffe obviously this gets back to him. So the

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Speaker 2: ticket pricing he has set for every home game, respective,

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Speaker 2: irrespective of who you are, whether you're a pension or whatever,

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Speaker 2: it equates to one hundred and thirty two end Z

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Speaker 2: dollars per ticket per match. And you know they're used

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Speaker 2: to watching big flare players winning trophies. It's not happening anymore.

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Speaker 2: They're not one hundred and thirty two dollars a ticket prospect.

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Speaker 2: Manchester United. They're going backwards. I think they're fifteenth in

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Speaker 2: the Premier League now, which will be their most catastrophic

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Speaker 2: finish ever. And all the while Ratcliffe has acted hundreds

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Speaker 2: of staff, the free lunches for the staff have gone.

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Speaker 2: It just goes from bad to worse. But the fans,

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Speaker 2: I think he's on the brink of a mutiny now

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Speaker 2: with the fans. And this is this is a guy

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Speaker 2: who from the local area and consider themself a Manchester

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Speaker 2: United fan.

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Speaker 1: There we go in the thank you for that? What

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Speaker 1: would you normally pay for a for a ticket?

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Speaker 2: You couldn't pay you. Look, you couldn't pay me to

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Speaker 2: watch Manchester United as a Liverpool fan. I'd go watch

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Speaker 2: them once a season. Well, look, I hope I hope

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Speaker 2: they enjoy us winning everything this year. Ryan, That's all

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Speaker 2: I would say.

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Speaker 1: And to thank you in the bradio, you can you're corresponding.

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