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Speaker 1: In the Brady a UK correspondence with us. Hello Inde,

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Speaker 1: Hey Heather, great to speak to you again. Not looking

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Speaker 1: good on the GDP front, is it? It's not really

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Speaker 1: And today was meant to be the big reset off

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Speaker 1: the back of yesterday's spending review by Rachel Reeves, who's

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Speaker 1: the chancellor the finance minister here, so horror mantra, and

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Speaker 1: the narrative was that they were investing and spending and

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Speaker 1: we're going to see a decade over a newell in

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Speaker 1: the UK, an awful lot of money being outlined as

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Speaker 1: rail projects and you know, a new nuclear plant, get

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Speaker 1: pink things moving again and get money back in people's pockets.

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Speaker 1: And in the last forty five minutes we've just had

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Speaker 1: the GDP figures come out for the last month and

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Speaker 1: the UK economy has shrunk by zero point three percent.

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Speaker 1: Now what they're saying is behind this, it's clearly Trump's

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Speaker 1: tariffs that a lot of UK manufacturing front loaded exports

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Speaker 1: to America to try and get round what he was doing.

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Speaker 1: But it's having a big impact. And if this keeps

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Speaker 1: going on, I think this would be the big fear

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Speaker 1: for Starmer and Reeves here that if this keeps going

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Speaker 1: on month by month, the economy keeps shrinking zero point

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Speaker 1: three percent. This is very bad news. Yeah, totally. Hey

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Speaker 1: listen on Ireland. What's it going to take to get

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Speaker 1: the stuff to calm down. So we've just had a

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Speaker 1: third consecutive night of violence in the town of Ballymena

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Speaker 1: in the North of Ireland. And what's behind this. This

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Speaker 1: is nothing to do with any of the what you

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Speaker 1: might call traditional historic issues between the two communities in

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Speaker 1: the North of Ireland. This is all over an alleged

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Speaker 1: sexual assault in the town of Ballamina earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: The victim was a teenaged local girl allegedly attacked by

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Speaker 1: two fourteen year old Romanians. Now they were arrested, they

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Speaker 1: were brought to court and the boys spoke only through

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Speaker 1: a Romanian interpreter. And obviously simmering tensions in the community.

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Speaker 1: So for three consecutive nights we have seen rioting. We

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Speaker 1: have seen properties belonging to people who are not born

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Speaker 1: on the island of Ireland that have been attacked, Vehicles

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Speaker 1: set alight, dozens of police officers injured, and last night

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Speaker 1: it took a very sinister twist. So people who have

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Speaker 1: been burned out with their own properties have now been

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Speaker 1: moved temporarily to a leisure center in the town of

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Speaker 1: larn And what happened last night was a gang turned

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Speaker 1: up and tried to burn down the leisure center. So

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Speaker 1: the police are so stretched they've had to call in

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Speaker 1: extra personnel from Police Scotland to come and back up

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Speaker 1: and backfill. It's very, very worrying. But what's it going

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Speaker 1: to take to get them to calm down, do you think? Look,

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Speaker 1: I think the big fear here would be that as

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Speaker 1: we head into summer. You know, there are traditional parades

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Speaker 1: from one particular community in the North of Ireland that

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Speaker 1: happened during July. You know, we've seen summers of discontent

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Speaker 1: in the North of Ireland previously where there have been

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Speaker 1: community flash points. All of that had mostly gone away.

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Speaker 1: Life was good, but this alleged sexual assault has just

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Speaker 1: been the tinder spark really this week that has kind

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Speaker 1: of created such kind of chaos And it was interesting

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Speaker 1: the Assistant Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland coming

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Speaker 1: out this week and warning people if you riot, you

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Speaker 1: will be prosecuted and then you could go to prison

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Speaker 1: and that has not even put people off. Jeez, Inda,

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Speaker 1: thank you for talking as I really appreciate it. Inda Brady,

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Speaker 1: are UK corresponding you that business in Ireland? I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you've been keeping an eye on that, but

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Speaker 1: that's pretty rough what's going on there. For more from

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