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Speaker 1: France, Cats Froinfield. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Thank you, Mike, thank you for asking.

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Speaker 1: Not at all. Reassure me that are the phones working?

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Speaker 1: Are the trains going? Have you fixed at all?

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Speaker 2: They say it is all fixed. Yes. These two acts

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Speaker 2: of sabotage, one the major one last Friday, just before

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Speaker 2: the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. That was the

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Speaker 2: one that really got them got concern because at the

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Speaker 2: moment the authorities are leaning towards far left extremists who

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Speaker 2: carried out the sabotage. They knocked out three of the

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Speaker 2: main high speed train links to Paris, one to the west,

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Speaker 2: the east, one to the north, and was only by

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Speaker 2: luck that they managed to foil the one the attack

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Speaker 2: that was planned against the one to the south. So

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Speaker 2: they do say that the trains are up and running again.

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Speaker 2: Some eight hundred thousand people had their holiday departure times

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Speaker 2: completely messed up, but they are saying that it looks

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Speaker 2: as though it could be someone in the culture left.

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Speaker 2: And then, of course Monday mornings news was that there

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Speaker 2: was vandalism on the fiber optic cables and the network

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Speaker 2: in the south of the country across four or five

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Speaker 2: different regions. So no one yet might linking that vandalism

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Speaker 2: to the between the telecoms and the trains, but certainly

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Speaker 2: it's a concern when we're told to look out for

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Speaker 2: terrorism here in Paris and all this is happening outside.

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Speaker 1: Last Supper was touch and go. I think there was

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Speaker 1: always going to be a bit touch and go. But overall,

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Speaker 1: what's the vibe of that that opens? Did the locals

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Speaker 1: love it?

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Speaker 2: Love it? Eighty five percent of French people thought it

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Speaker 2: was a great success, thought it was a great way

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Speaker 2: to show the world about French history, art culture. And

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Speaker 2: there was a bit of grumbling that the Olympic organizers

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Speaker 2: apologized to the church, because of course they're the bishops

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Speaker 2: here in France and also in Italy. Complained they reckon

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Speaker 2: that that Last Supper was actually a sycology. But in

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Speaker 2: fact the choreographer came up yesterday in fact on television

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Speaker 2: and said it had nothing to do with the Laspa.

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Speaker 2: It represented Greek gods in ancient Greece, the home of

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Speaker 2: the Olympics, and them having their religious festival, nothing to

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Speaker 2: do with the Last Supper.

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Speaker 1: He said, Okay, now the sin doesn't look good, and

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Speaker 1: the forecast doesn't look good to either. What are they

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Speaker 1: going to do?

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're playing this hour by hour might Yes, they've

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Speaker 2: had to cancel those familiarization dips into the sin for

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Speaker 2: the triathletes. Had to cancel it Sunday, had to cancel

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Speaker 2: it Monday. The latest we've heard is that the coal

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Speaker 2: i is between three and five times above the acceptable level.

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Speaker 2: The big question mark really is you did everything go

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Speaker 2: according to playing? Okay, yes, they couldn't predict that there

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Speaker 2: was going to be so much rain during the opening ceremony,

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Speaker 2: But they say one of the biggest money wastages came

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Speaker 2: actually with that reservoir that they built at the end

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Speaker 2: of the sin going out of Paris, where all of

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Speaker 2: the sewer she was meant to go, and it was

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Speaker 2: meant to go in there and not into the river.

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Speaker 2: They say that was just a waste of money. Just

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Speaker 2: too many pipes connected up, too much could have gone wrong.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, the plumbing of homes in Paris should

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Speaker 2: have been dealt with decades ago and not just a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago as the Olympics was approaching.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this business of the rain, is it unusual to

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Speaker 1: rain this much in Paris? In the latter part of July.

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Speaker 2: It is yeah, really unusual. I haven't had this sort

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Speaker 2: of heavy rain for at least twenty years. The reason

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Speaker 2: the locals aren't complaining, Mike, is because we've had so

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Speaker 2: many DRAMs lately, the climate change. We've had that, so

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Speaker 2: the locals think it's great, Yes, let it rain, because

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Speaker 2: then the rain stops and we get the temperatures that

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Speaker 2: we've now got for today and tomorrow, which is about

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Speaker 2: thirty five degrees. It's great heat waves. So if the

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Speaker 2: rains come, then enjoy it, because the heat will come

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Speaker 2: after it.

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Speaker 1: What as a pleasure, casine go, Well, we'll catch up

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Speaker 1: next week. Casperinfield and France. My daughter has has been

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Speaker 1: literally at the moment she said it was twenty five

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Speaker 1: the other day. It doesn't seem to be the sort

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Speaker 1: of the summer the last couple of summers we've experienced

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Speaker 1: in Europe, those high thirties, early forties and the stories

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Speaker 1: of elderly people dying and stuff. It seems to be

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Speaker 1: a wet and coolish sort of summer. If you watch

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Speaker 1: the f one in Belgium. Got a son in London.

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Speaker 1: He says it's permanently raining and cold. In that part

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Speaker 1: of the world at the moment, so Europe seems to

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Speaker 1: be having a very mild, if not wet summer. For

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