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Speaker 1: When you go to visit an old friend, you take

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Speaker 1: a gift, don't you, Especially if you go into the house,

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Speaker 1: you take a gift. You make some muffins or something

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Speaker 1: when you go over. Gavin Gray's our UK correspondent, Gavin

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Speaker 1: good evening, Hi.

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Speaker 2: There, Hy and I know where you're going with this.

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Speaker 1: He is Kistan has taking quite the gift of them.

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Speaker 1: Isn't he a very expensive one in there?

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Speaker 2: Yes? He is, so as kids farmer flying out to

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Speaker 2: meet the US President Donald Trump today all over Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: the UK and Europe pushing for a seat at the table,

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Speaker 2: a bigger say in the future of Ukraine and supporting

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Speaker 2: Ukraine following a complete about face from America about their

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Speaker 2: future plans for the country, and the UK has announced

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Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours that it is to

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Speaker 2: spend much much more on defense. It is increasing here

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Speaker 2: the percentage of its gross domestic product spent on defense

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Speaker 2: from two point three percent to two point five percent.

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Speaker 2: It's a very bigger, big figure in real terms. So

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Speaker 2: how's the government getting this because we're told budgets are tight.

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Speaker 2: But the answer is it is taking that money directly

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Speaker 2: out of the international aid budget. That is money that

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Speaker 2: goes from the UK to countries around the world for

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Speaker 2: charitable causes, sort of soft diplomacy, as it's called. Now.

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Speaker 2: Critics are saying the cut to the aid budget is

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Speaker 2: a betrayal of charitable work around the world. Others are saying, frankly,

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Speaker 2: we are spending far too much trying to prop up

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Speaker 2: charities in places like China and India that have space programs.

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Speaker 2: We don't have a space program, and so why should

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Speaker 2: we be funding them? And it has already been hailed

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Speaker 2: this increase in defense spending by the US Defense Secretary

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Speaker 2: Pete Hesketh called it a strong step from an enduring partner.

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Speaker 2: The focus Now, Ryan, we'll move on to countries like

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Speaker 2: Spain that spends just one and a quarter percent of

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Speaker 2: national income on defense. Italy, another big hitter in Europe,

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Speaker 2: spends less than one point five percent.

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Speaker 1: This is a big story out of the UK BP,

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Speaker 1: the energy giant. We all know it. They've got a

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Speaker 1: big announcement they're making.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's long been mooted, it's long been suggested. We

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Speaker 2: have talked about this before, Ryan, but now we actually

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Speaker 2: believe in the next few hours they are going to

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Speaker 2: come out and say it and that is, they are

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Speaker 2: going to slash renewable energy investments and instead focus on

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Speaker 2: increasing oil and gas. In other words, the complete opposite

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Speaker 2: of what environmentalists are demanding and indeed what the most

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Speaker 2: recent cop agreements have suggested. But of course we've heard

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump saying drill, baby, drills, suggesting that America is

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Speaker 2: going to really push to make the most of it.

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Speaker 2: The UK has at the moment not been giving new

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Speaker 2: licenses to oil fields that have been found on the

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Speaker 2: premise that it's trying to hit this net zero goal.

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Speaker 2: But BP to outline its strategy later. It's under huge

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Speaker 2: pressure from investors. Profits are down, the share price has

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Speaker 2: been much lower than its rivals, and indeed it's not

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Speaker 2: alone Shell. Of course, another oil giant, Norwegian company Equinor,

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Speaker 2: they have already announced they are scaling back their plans

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Speaker 2: to invest in green energy, and some shareholders and environmental

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Speaker 2: groups voicing concerns over the potential ramping up of production

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Speaker 2: on fossil fuels. But of course they look across at China,

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Speaker 2: look across at Russia, and that's exactly what they are doing,

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Speaker 2: and now look across at America. Five years ago, BP,

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Speaker 2: once known as British Petroleum said some of the most

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Speaker 2: ambitious targets among any big oil companies to cut production

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Speaker 2: of oil and gas by forty percent by twenty thirty

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Speaker 2: and ramp up investments on renewables. In twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: the company lowered this oil and gas reduction target to

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Speaker 2: just twenty five percent. Later we expect a new figure.

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Speaker 1: The Isle of Man is having a look at legalizing

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Speaker 1: assisted dying givin Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It could therefore become the first place in the United

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Speaker 2: Kingdom to make it legal. It's being debated in the

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Speaker 2: parliaments of England and Wales, in Scotland as well, and

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Speaker 2: then in the Senate in Wales. But it looks in

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Speaker 2: England and Wales anyway that this is going to put

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on politicians. I think people on

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Speaker 2: the Isle of Man will and that is the little

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Speaker 2: island between northwest England and Ireland, and people on there

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Speaker 2: are going to be eligible to request assisted dying if

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Speaker 2: they are terminally ill and expected to die within twelve

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Speaker 2: months over the age of eighteen, registered with local doctors.

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Speaker 2: There's been a debate about how long you should be

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Speaker 2: resident for. Currently it's a minimum of five years residency.

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Speaker 2: So this kind of stops people from becoming flying over

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Speaker 2: in order to get assisted dying, but at the age

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Speaker 2: of eighteen, anyone over that and with a prognosis of

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Speaker 2: twelve months or fewer to live will be eligible under

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Speaker 2: this legislation being debated. It looks like it's going to

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Speaker 2: get the go ahead now. They've been talking about it

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Speaker 2: for a long time and big pressure now on politicians

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Speaker 2: in England and Wales to follow suit.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, thanks so much for that up there, Devin Gray,

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