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Speaker 1: Time to catch up with UK correspondent in the Brady Hi, Inda.

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Speaker 2: Hey Jack, good to speak to you again.

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Speaker 1: You too now pretty sure is mounting on the BBC

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Speaker 1: to pull the plug on mastershift shows involving Greg Wallace.

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Speaker 3: So, if you haven't followed this story, a lot of women,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of them are well known women in

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Speaker 3: the media spotlight here have come forward to say and

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Speaker 3: complain about Greg Wallace making inappropriate jokes of a sexual nature,

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Speaker 3: sexualized banter. Not good about thirteen people now, he's pointing out,

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Speaker 3: he's basically come out of the Trump playbook with his defense.

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Speaker 3: And Greg Wallace is an unabashed, asked Englishman and he

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Speaker 3: has come out and said on Instagram the other day

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Speaker 3: that if you notice the complaints and the complainants, he said,

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Speaker 3: they're all from middle class ladies of a certain age.

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Speaker 3: So that was his response. It has not gone down

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Speaker 3: very well, so much so that more people have come

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Speaker 3: forward and it's getting worse for him. He's kind of

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Speaker 3: flambayed his career to use a culinary expression and he's

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Speaker 3: now had to apologize, but it's it's almost a non apology.

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Speaker 3: He said that if you were offended by what he

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Speaker 3: said about middle class ladies of a certain age complaining

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Speaker 3: about him. He's sorry the show goes on on TV.

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Speaker 3: At least they've already filmed Mastership. It is the one

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Speaker 3: of the points coverage and entertainment up until Christmas. But

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Speaker 3: the problem they've got is this is on the front

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Speaker 3: pages here every single day now. Greg Wallace has become

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Speaker 3: a media caricature.

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Speaker 2: And then they've they've got a show that's already filmed.

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Speaker 3: They're at the semi final stage and people are now

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Speaker 3: saying that just been it off and await the results

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Speaker 3: of the investigation.

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Speaker 1: Ah dear, Yeah, what a fiesco. I imagine being in

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Speaker 1: the BBC having to make that call. It's really tricky. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Camilla has pulled out of today's ceremonial welcome for Katas

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Speaker 1: Royals while they're on a state visits.

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Speaker 3: So this is a three day state visit the Emir

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Speaker 3: of Qatar and his wife. They are some of the

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Speaker 3: wealthiest people in history and they're coming to the UK

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Speaker 3: for three days before Christmas. Now, Camilla has the lingering

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Speaker 3: effects of that chest infection that has kind of taken her.

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Speaker 2: Out of the loop for several weeks now since.

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Speaker 3: She got back from Australia and India and Samoa, so

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Speaker 3: she's not going to be taking part in the carriage

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Speaker 3: procession today. Now it was minus eight in parts of

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Speaker 3: Scotland last night. I've not even seen what it was

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Speaker 3: here in Oxfordshire. I know it was cold. It will

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Speaker 3: be a bitterly cold morning to be around horse Guards

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Speaker 3: Parade in London, especially if you're not in the best

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Speaker 3: of shape and your lungs are giving you grief. So

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Speaker 3: I think she's quite right to take a step back today.

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Speaker 3: Apparently she will attend the lunch indoors later on, but

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Speaker 3: she will not be in the carriage procession to welcome

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Speaker 3: the Emir of Qatar. It is Keir Starmer's first state

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Speaker 3: visit here as Prime Minister, so it's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: And look, Britain needs growth and the Kataries could certainly

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Speaker 3: do a lot for British business.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And how the French government is on the

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Speaker 1: brink of collapse.

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Speaker 2: Hanging by a threat. So Michel Barney out of the

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Speaker 2: name rings of Belle.

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Speaker 3: He was basically the European Union bureaucrat who did their

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Speaker 3: Brexit negotiations. He's now French Prime Minister. He yesterday decided

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Speaker 3: to force through a budget without a vote. The French

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Speaker 3: are extremely angry. You can imagine how they go on

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Speaker 3: this one. So he is looking at a vote of

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Speaker 3: no confidence, possibly as early as tomorrow, possibly the French

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Speaker 3: government collapsing. Because he can't win the vote of no confidence,

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Speaker 3: the far right to go against him and that will

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Speaker 3: mean that the French government could collapse as early as Thursday.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of stress. There, a lot of problems.

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Speaker 3: It's the second biggest economy in Europe. We need a strong, prosperous,

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Speaker 3: politically stable France. Waiting in the background, of course, is

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Speaker 3: Marie Le penn of the far right, her National Rally Party.

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Speaker 3: They got ten million votes year in the European elections

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Speaker 3: last time round, so she's gaining in popularity and that

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Speaker 3: spells bad news for Emmanuel MACRONK.

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Speaker 1: What do you think this is about Macron's decision to

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Speaker 1: call that snap election.

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Speaker 2: I think in hindsight, I'm guessing now. I was there.

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Speaker 2: I covered a time.

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Speaker 3: It was in the middle of a mini riot in Paris.

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Speaker 3: I think in hindsight he's probably regretting it now, but

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Speaker 3: he did it to shock the French people because there

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Speaker 3: was a huge surge of support ten million votes for

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Speaker 3: the far right and the pen during the European elections,

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Speaker 3: and I think he woke up the next day and thought, Okay,

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Speaker 3: do you know what, I'm going to go to the people.

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Speaker 2: If you want the far right government, bring it on.

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Speaker 3: And of course the far right did not win that election.

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Speaker 3: They swung far left. You know, it's Francis all over

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Speaker 3: the place. Germany's in a bad place as well. Twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five could be a very difficult year for the

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Speaker 3: European project.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time in the as if a

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent in the Brady with us this evening.

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