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Speaker 1: Your news talks WIB. It's quarter to seven and quarter

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Speaker 1: to six in the UK and London right now. Givin

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Speaker 1: Gray is with us and no flights going anywhere around

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Speaker 1: Heathrow Airport today given.

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Speaker 2: No a massive, massive disruption to travelers. At one point

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Speaker 2: a couple of hours back, one hundred and twenty flights

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Speaker 2: were in the air and had to be turned around

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Speaker 2: or sent to alternative airports. That was a short time ago,

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Speaker 2: but of course he throws a massive hub for not

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Speaker 2: just coming in but going out of the UK. Eighty

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Speaker 2: three point nine million passengers passed through its terminals last

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Speaker 2: year and it was handling roughly one thousand, three hundred

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Speaker 2: plane movements, so landings and takeoffs each day. So that's

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Speaker 2: what's being shifted today in fact, to be precise, oney

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Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty one. So it's a huge concern.

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Speaker 2: People have been reporting being in the air being sent

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Speaker 2: back to their original destination. Others are going to be

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Speaker 2: landing in cities or other airports that they didn't know

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Speaker 2: they were going to get to. And we are waiting

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Speaker 2: for a statement now from Heatherer, but we're expecting that soon.

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Speaker 2: But certainly the power companies are saying, look, this is

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Speaker 2: going to take some time to sort this out. The

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Speaker 2: National Grid of saying quote, we're working at speed to

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Speaker 2: restore power supply as quickly as possible. All this because

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Speaker 2: of far at a substation nearby, and it's not just

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Speaker 2: the airport but it's about thirteen hundred properties nearby as well,

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Speaker 2: so it's a really massive disruption. And as of about

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes ago was the last site and there is

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Speaker 2: still flames. So this is going to take not just today.

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Speaker 2: The knock on a fake is going to last several days.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it still flames burning now goodness, Well.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly a very very thick smoke so that the

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Speaker 2: fire service still there. But even if it were to

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Speaker 2: be back and out and you know there, it's going

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Speaker 2: to take fixing. And even if it's fixed. Heather Airport

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Speaker 2: has already said we are shutting through until midnight to

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Speaker 2: night at least.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and they've got to put safety first. Obviously

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Speaker 1: they're an amport, don't they, So you can't argue with that. Now.

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Speaker 1: Nicolas Sturgeon, what's happening with her? And the police were involved,

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Speaker 1: you know, there was a Police Scotland investigation into her

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Speaker 1: finances and the political party's finances. Is she off the

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Speaker 1: hook for this?

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Speaker 2: Yes she is, and she said there is not a

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Speaker 2: shred of evidence against me. So Nicolas Sturgeon incredibly popular

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Speaker 2: when she was Leader of Scotland. Of course she tries

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Speaker 2: to force through Scottish independence and failed narrowly, but she

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Speaker 2: remained very very popular. And then whole question started to

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Speaker 2: be asked about hundreds of thousands of pounds, hundreds of

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Speaker 2: thousands of New Zealand dollars regarding the fees and other

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Speaker 2: donations given to the Scottish National Party, and that is

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Speaker 2: of course the party that really pushes for independence in Scotland. Now,

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Speaker 2: she and her husband, the former chief executive of the

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Speaker 2: Scottish National Party, and indeed the Treasurer were all under suspicion.

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Speaker 2: But when her former husband, the chief Executive, Peter Burrell,

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Speaker 2: appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff god he was charged with embezzlement

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Speaker 2: and made no plea during a private hearing. He was

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Speaker 2: granted bail. But Nicholas Sturgeon herself and indeed the former

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Speaker 2: Treasurer Colin Beatty, were told they were no longer under investigation.

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Speaker 2: As I said, this all stems from donations that are

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Speaker 2: about one point four million New Zealand dollars in donations

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Speaker 2: given by independence activists, and it was led to her

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Speaker 2: home being searched, the home she had shared with her

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Speaker 2: former husband. And also there was the discovery of a

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Speaker 2: motor home, a luxury motor home parked in the driveway

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Speaker 2: of her husband's mother. So Peter Murrell's mother had this

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Speaker 2: bizarre luxury motor home partner. All sorts of questions about

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Speaker 2: how the money for that was procured and we wait

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Speaker 2: to see in the long run how his case of

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Speaker 2: embezzlement goes on. But as I said, Nicholas Sturgeon and

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Speaker 2: Colin Beatty, given the complete all clear.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, may if you're going to go for political ambislement,

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Speaker 1: you'd want more than a motor home, surely to show

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Speaker 1: Finland is happy. They're happy. But what about the Brits

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Speaker 1: And where did you rank on this happiness survey?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not very well. So the UN the United Nations

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Speaker 2: always looks at a world happiness report where are the

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Speaker 2: people living in different countries happy? And if so, how

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Speaker 2: or why? And Finland tops that ranking for the eighth

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Speaker 2: consecutive year. It's actually ahead of three other Nordic companies

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Speaker 2: in this particular report, while in Latin America, Costa Rica

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Speaker 2: and Mexico enter the top ten for the first time

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Speaker 2: you ask about the UK, I'm afraid we're down to

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Speaker 2: twenty third. We drop down a couple of places. This

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Speaker 2: is America dropped down to twenty fourth, the lowest ever

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Speaker 2: position for the latter. How did New Zealand do well?

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Speaker 2: New Zealand has come in at twelfth, the same position

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Speaker 2: as last year, Australia eleventh, and both Australia and New

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Speaker 2: but nevertheless sort of holding their position and significantly above

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Speaker 2: the UK. So the top ten Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands,

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Speaker 2: Costa Rica, Norway, Israel, Luxembourg and Mexico. And at the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the table of the one hundred ninety seventh Gabon,

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Speaker 2: ninety eighth, the Ivory Coast, ninety ninth Iran and one

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Speaker 2: hundredth Congo, So Africa very heavily weighted at the bottom end.

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Speaker 2: So why might people be happy? Well, they're saying it

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Speaker 2: could be a change in direction of political polarization. Sharing meals.

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Speaker 2: They believe is a strength to happiness. And also there

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Speaker 2: are you know, household sized saying four or five people

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Speaker 2: living together has the highest levels of happiness in Europe.

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Speaker 1: There you go, a bit of company, bit of food,

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Speaker 1: everyone's happy given. Thank you for that. Gavin Great, our

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent.

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