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Speaker 1: Devin Gray, how UK correspondents with US, hey, Kevin Hi

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Speaker 1: have so this trade deal, who's a bitter for the

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Speaker 1: US or the UK?

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Speaker 2: Very good questions. That's been something that's been debated, but

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister says this is a great deal, fantastic

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Speaker 2: historic deal and is very keen. So what the US

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Speaker 2: and UK have agreed to do is that Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is to remove the twenty five percent tariff on steel

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Speaker 2: and aluminium coming out of the UK and into the US.

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Speaker 2: He will also cut the rate on car exports from

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Speaker 2: twenty seven and a half percent to ten percent, and

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Speaker 2: that actually is pretty crucial because companies like Jaguar landro

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Speaker 2: have actually put a temporary pause on production and export

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Speaker 2: waiting for an announcement like this. It covers the first

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand cars, but last year I think we sold

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Speaker 2: one hundred and one thousand across the Atlantic, so it

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Speaker 2: is going to be pretty good. In return, the UK

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Speaker 2: government says it's removing the town gariffon ethanol for US

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Speaker 2: goods and agrees reciprocal market access on beef. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be very interesting. Farmers rather worried about that last bit. Now,

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Speaker 2: I suppose the question is having announced a deal with

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Speaker 2: India and America this week, two huge company, big trading partners.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we now turn the focus on the EU

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Speaker 2: and already we're hearing now from the Governor of the

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Speaker 2: Bank of England saying Britain needs to rebuild its trade

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Speaker 2: relationship with the European It is the UK's largest trading

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Speaker 2: partner and there are calls for a reset in relations.

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Speaker 1: Kevin. Why was Keir Starman not at the White House

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Speaker 1: for the announcement?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he interested this. He's had a rather busy diary

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Speaker 2: lately and it would appear that he was enjoying certain hospitality.

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Speaker 2: There was a report of with Arsenal playing. But also

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Speaker 2: he has now got to go to Norway today as well.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's just one of those things. It

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Speaker 2: was seen a long way. They thought they'd leave it

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Speaker 2: in the Lord Peter Mandelson, former very senior minister within

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Speaker 2: Tony Blair's government and seen as a very smooth operator.

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Speaker 2: So he was the one that was on the shoulder

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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump as the signing went ahead. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think an interesting thing that sort of secure Starma

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Speaker 2: didn't think the need to.

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Speaker 1: Go I think so too. Hey, so what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: What's the UK going to do with these Russian oil tankers.

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Speaker 2: Well, since the invasion of Ukraine, many Western countries of

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Speaker 2: course have impost sanctions are Russian energy, that is, by

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Speaker 2: limiting imports and capping the price of its oil. These

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Speaker 2: are of course trying to prevent that money going into

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Speaker 2: Russia in order then to be used to fund the war.

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Speaker 2: But to get around these penalties, Russia has built up

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Speaker 2: what's been referred to as a shadow fleet of tankers.

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Speaker 2: The ownerships and movements are obscured. They aren't sort of

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Speaker 2: officially on the register of Russian boats, but they are

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Speaker 2: being used, it's believe, to export oil around the world.

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Speaker 2: The government thinks they are decrepit, often in a very

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Speaker 2: dangerous state, and responsible for what they've described as reckless seafaring.

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Speaker 2: Now it's not just one or two boats, it's up

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Speaker 2: to one hundred vessels carrying more than thirty eight billion

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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars worth of cargo since the start of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. And so Sekirir starmers I mentioned he's

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Speaker 2: with North European leaders at the Joint Expeditionary Force in Oslo,

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Speaker 2: today and he is announcing that there are going to

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Speaker 2: be sanctions on those one hundred vessels, and I think

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Speaker 2: he's hoping that other leaders there would take note and

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Speaker 2: maybe do the same, because at the moment, all those

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Speaker 2: sanctions are are going to be banning them from British

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Speaker 2: ports and also potentially detaining them if they come into

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Speaker 2: UK waters. If that now is expanded by other nations

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Speaker 2: and the JEF as it's known, consisting of ten nations

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Speaker 2: including Denmark, Norway in the Netherlands, then this could be

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Speaker 2: a much bigger step.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now listen, is this Dean Mark situation serious?

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Speaker 2: Yes? It is so. The Wall Street Journal in America

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Speaker 2: leaked a story saying that the spy agencies in Washington

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Speaker 2: in America have been told by the Trump administration to

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Speaker 2: focus their minds on Greenland amid that threat of Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump to take over the island. Now, according to the newspaper,

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Speaker 2: US spy agencies told to focus efforts on the semi

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Speaker 2: autonomous countries independence movement and America's goals, of course, to

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Speaker 2: extract minimal resources there. So. The Director of National Intelligence

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Speaker 2: has reacted furiously to this league, saying that it is

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Speaker 2: an attempt to undermine President Trump by politicizing and leaking

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Speaker 2: classified information, accusing the Wall Street Journal of breaking the

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Speaker 2: law and undermining our nations security and democracy. But the

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Speaker 2: Danes the same. Hang on a minute, now, are you

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Speaker 2: spying on an ally here? So they're summoning the US

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Speaker 2: ambassad to effectively address these reports, and as you can imagine,

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Speaker 2: are not happy with Denmark the overarching country when it

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Speaker 2: comes to Greenland, the Greenland remaining semi autonomous.

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Speaker 1: Hey Gavin, thanks very much, enjoy your weekend and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you again next week. That's Kevin great are

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent.

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