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Speaker 1: But let's go to the UK and our correspondent today

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Speaker 1: is Vincent Megavinny. Hello, Vincent, good afternoon. What happened today

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Speaker 1: in the case of the seventeen year old charged with

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Speaker 1: murder of three Southport girls at the Taylor Swift Dad's party.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this tragic incident up in the north west

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Speaker 2: of England are still really being felt in the community

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Speaker 2: and around the country. Three girls, as you mentioned BB

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Speaker 2: King six, LC dot stand Come seven and nine year

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Speaker 2: old Alice da Silva died after that ninth attack at

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Speaker 2: a Taylor Swift themed event in Southport that was at

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Speaker 2: the hands allegedly of a seventeen year old who has

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Speaker 2: now been charged. Were not able to release his name yet,

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Speaker 2: but he has been charged with murder of the three

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Speaker 2: girls and attempted murder of ten others. We know that

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Speaker 2: eight other children and two adults who are at the

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Speaker 2: event were injured, some still believed to be in a

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Speaker 2: critical condition in hospital and have been undergoing surgeries. Of

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Speaker 2: other girls who were also at that class as survived,

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Speaker 2: obviously dealing with the trauma of what they witnessed. But

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Speaker 2: this is the start of a long legal process. The

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Speaker 2: police still saying this is not an act of terrorism.

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Speaker 2: There is no link, as has been falsely claimed on

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Speaker 2: social media to any Islamist attack, and we still don't

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Speaker 2: have any idea of a motive for this crime. But

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Speaker 2: the legal process now starting.

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Speaker 1: Because yesterday we were reporting on the fact that at

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Speaker 1: a vigil of course for the Girl's trouble actually burst out,

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Speaker 1: and then a nearer mass again trouble burst out, and

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Speaker 1: this was because of people who had been misinformed through

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Speaker 1: social media by bad actors somewhere. Now we hear even

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Speaker 1: more trouble outside Downing Street.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Last night there were huge skirmishes between

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Speaker 2: police and the far right edl English Defense League movement.

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Speaker 2: They're sort of bad actors online of trying to co

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Speaker 2: opt this and tie it into sort of the immigration

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Speaker 2: debate and the small boats that crossed the channel, and

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Speaker 2: so you had hundreds of them turning up last night

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Speaker 2: in claiming that they were there to quote protect their children,

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Speaker 2: that our civil disorder ensued. They were violent towards police,

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Speaker 2: they fired flares, had a statue of Winston Churchill and

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Speaker 2: into Downing Street, and one was even spotted giving a

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Speaker 2: Nazi salute outside Downing Street. So one hundred have been

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Speaker 2: arrested and the starting to face charges now of disorderly

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Speaker 2: conduct in the public area, violence towards police officers as well.

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Speaker 2: So pretty ugly scenes last night, stirred up by the

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Speaker 2: likes of the EDL Tom Robinson, but also some claiming

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Speaker 2: by Nigel Farage as well, who took instead of the

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Speaker 2: Commons as he is now an MP, to ask questions

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Speaker 2: of Home Office ministers about what was going on in

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Speaker 2: the town, took to social media to sort of stir

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Speaker 2: up conspiracy theory, saying that, you know, he felt something

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Speaker 2: was being hidden and sort of alleging that there was

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Speaker 2: more going on with this, but not sort of saying

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Speaker 2: what he thought that was. So some ugly scenes playing

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Speaker 2: out after this horrible incident.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Even though you know this story after story

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Speaker 1: showing the links and showing the networks and showing the

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Speaker 1: teen accounts and social media that we're responsible for sewing

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Speaker 1: the disinformation, people keep on believing it. What's that about?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's no cure for stupidity, is there.

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Speaker 1: As we said, now, how's your economy and what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen to interest rate and will they be cut?

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Speaker 2: Well, our economy is doing pretty well compared to a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. We've now got interest We've now

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Speaker 2: got inflation down at two percent from a high of

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Speaker 2: over eleven percent, but our interest rates are still at

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Speaker 2: a sixteen year high, stuck up at five point two

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Speaker 2: five percent, and the Bank of England has consistently delayed.

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Speaker 2: Inflation had come down to that two percent target by

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Speaker 2: the time two months ago of the last rates decision,

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Speaker 2: but that decision now this today, the monthly decision, there's

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Speaker 2: about a sixty percent chance of them being brought down,

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Speaker 2: it's thought by zero point to five basis points to

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Speaker 2: five percent, which would be a massive relief to people

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Speaker 2: here struggling with the highest cost of living pressures and

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Speaker 2: the highest tax burden since the Second World War. So

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Speaker 2: many homeowners who have mortgages across the country hoping that

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Speaker 2: we're starting now to see a return not quite of course,

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Speaker 2: to the historic lows we had back in the day

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Speaker 2: after the financial crash, of down atzero point two five percent,

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Speaker 2: but hopefully at least on their way back down to

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Speaker 2: a more manageable route. Now that we have a government

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Speaker 2: coming in that is promising to be fiscally disciplined, that

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Speaker 2: might after the sort of disaster of Liz Trust's time

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Speaker 2: which caused this massive spike in inflation rates, in interest

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Speaker 2: rates might start. There's on a path to recovery, okay.

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Speaker 1: And I guess you can take your mind off at

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Speaker 1: with the Olympics. I never knew that England was so

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Speaker 1: good at swimming.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean this is all down to John Major,

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Speaker 2: who was our Prime minister in the nineteen nineties. The

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Speaker 2: UK went at or TEAMGB went to the Atlanta Games

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Speaker 2: and only came back with one gold and he thought,

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Speaker 2: for a country that's the world's fifth biggest economy, this

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Speaker 2: isn't good enough. So he had set up our national

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Speaker 2: lottery and he decided then that the funding for our

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Speaker 2: athletes would in part come from the national lottery system

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Speaker 2: and that has led to a huge boom in sports

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Speaker 2: funding across the country, of course, building up to twenty

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Speaker 2: twelve when we hosted the Games, and the UK you know,

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Speaker 2: getting into consistently the sort of top five of the

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Speaker 2: medals table. And that is the aim again this year

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Speaker 2: is to have fifty to seventy gold medals and that's

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Speaker 2: because of that legacy funding that started then and has

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Speaker 2: gone right through.

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Speaker 1: Well we've got one bad hy We're small. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Vincent, thanks.

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