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Speaker 1: We're going to our UK correspondent Devin Gray, who's standing

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Speaker 1: by Gavin. Good evening, Good evening to you, Rah, good

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Speaker 1: morning to you. I should say, the UK Chancellor is

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Speaker 1: off to talk with the European leaders. Why has this

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Speaker 1: got some feeling about gittery.

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Speaker 2: Because it is the first meeting between Chancellor of the

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Speaker 2: UK in this case Rachel Reeves and the European counterparts.

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Speaker 2: And the reason it's got people jittery here is that

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Speaker 2: is the first meeting that's been organized talking of breaking

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Speaker 2: down barriers to trade in closer, a resetting of relationships,

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Speaker 2: closer relationships, and it's the first meeting since Brexit. So

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Speaker 2: many Brexiteers believe that this may be a sort of

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Speaker 2: soft way of trying to pave the way to closer

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Speaker 2: links to the EU and a potential unraveling of Brexit.

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Speaker 2: Now there'll be some that think, well, good, you know,

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Speaker 2: that's what we need. But this is going to be

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Speaker 2: extremely difficult for this government to try and sort of

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Speaker 2: tack a path, a middle ground path. It has repeatedly

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Speaker 2: said that it does not want to rejoin the Bloc.

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Speaker 2: But this government has since it got elected in July

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Speaker 2: repeatedly says it does want to deepen ties with the EU. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's good. Everyone of course will be happy if there's

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Speaker 2: better trade. The problem is twofold. The first, really, I

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Speaker 2: think is that it looks like Donald Trump is going

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Speaker 2: to want to sort of either you choose the US

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Speaker 2: or you choose the EU kind of decision from the UK.

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Speaker 2: We'll wait to see that that is likely or unlikely,

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Speaker 2: but many people believe he's going to be much much

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Speaker 2: better for the UK if we decide to sort of

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Speaker 2: lean towards him more in the Americas rather than European Union.

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Speaker 2: But another big problem, of course is that the European

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Speaker 2: Union may want something back in return if we decide

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Speaker 2: that we want things from them, And of course the

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Speaker 2: big question is what would the UK give up for that.

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Speaker 2: So Reggieve's talking to those leaders a little later on today.

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Speaker 1: Interesting and the Notre Dame Cathedral has held it first

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Speaker 1: mess since it reopened.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and a really really big ceremony as you could imagine,

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Speaker 2: that was for the VIPs, but its first mass in

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Speaker 2: those five years is a massive, massive mark. And it

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Speaker 2: was one of those occasions when France sort of went

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Speaker 2: all out on a big push, as you could imagine,

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Speaker 2: and there were bishops from around the world, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and seventy bishops plus one priest from each of the

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Speaker 2: Paris is of the Paris Diocese. The work that's gone

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Speaker 2: on for five years, costing what's said to be getting

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Speaker 2: on for about one point eight billion New Zealand dollars,

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Speaker 2: which has mostly come from donations around the world, involved

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Speaker 2: some two thousand masons and carpenters, a restorers, roofers, sculptors,

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Speaker 2: engineers on this project since that awful fire which saw

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Speaker 2: it virtually gutted as a building. And of course the

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Speaker 2: French President Emmanuel Macron in the mass as well part

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Speaker 2: of the liturgy, and he was no doubt hoping that

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Speaker 2: this would, you know, be some positive news for him

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Speaker 2: after a fortnight of political turmoil with the resignation of

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Speaker 2: his prime minister and complete instability and chaos at the

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Speaker 2: heart of government in France. At the moment, all eyes

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Speaker 2: were on the guest list for the VIP opening, which

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Speaker 2: had a which went ahead prior to that first mass.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump from America there and interesting choice. France, I

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Speaker 2: think desperate to get better relations as well with the US,

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Speaker 2: of course, but Donald Trump meeting Prince William for the

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Speaker 2: first time, or rather bath for another time, rather but

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Speaker 2: meeting him at that event and then telling everyone else

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Speaker 2: in the crowd what a good man he was. It's

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Speaker 2: an underwo unusual way of soft diplomacy here, right.

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Speaker 1: What happened when a fifteen year old Australian flew to

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Speaker 1: the UK just to see a local derby between Liverpool

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Speaker 1: and Eberton.

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Speaker 2: Oh great story this so the Mackenzie kinsella fifteen years

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Speaker 2: old and from Sydney, a huge fan of Everton football

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Speaker 2: team up in the northwest of England. His parents said no,

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Speaker 2: we can't afford you to go, it's too expensive. So

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Speaker 2: he started to save, save, save money like mad and

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Speaker 2: wanted to come and watch Everton play their final match

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Speaker 2: at their historic Goodison Park home stadium before they move.

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Speaker 2: And it's the last derby. That's the local match between

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Speaker 2: Liverpool and Everton that he wanted to come and see. Well.

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Speaker 2: Sadly he coincided his visit and that derby coincided with

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Speaker 2: a huge storm sweeping through the UK and most unusually,

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Speaker 2: that football match was called off and postponed because of

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Speaker 2: the storm and the strong winds. Naturally, he couldn't believe

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Speaker 2: it had come all the way here spend all his

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Speaker 2: money anyway. As he said himself, every cloud has a

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Speaker 2: silver lining. The captain of the Everton team saw his

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Speaker 2: plight in the media and on social media, and he's

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Speaker 2: been invited to meet the team personally today and see

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Speaker 2: them at their training ground and well, as you can imagine,

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Speaker 2: as he said, every cloud, how's a silver app.

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Speaker 1: Soon he sounds like a Vivan. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for that. Rep Gavin Gray, our UK correspondent.

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