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Speaker 1: Devin Gray UK corresponds with US now evening Gevin, Hi

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Speaker 1: there Heakevin. How is this going down? The news that

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Speaker 1: you've got Labor Party people in the UK going over

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Speaker 1: to assister Kamala Harris campaign in the US presidential election.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, quite a shock and certainly not what Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is very happy with. The Prime Minister hre desperately trying

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Speaker 2: to play it all down, saying that he had only

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Speaker 2: recently met Donald Trump for a reconstructive dinner. He's never

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Speaker 2: met Kamala Harris, but he has met Joe Biden numerous times.

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Speaker 2: But the allegations are that, according to the Trump campaign

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Speaker 2: that has filed this complaint with the Federal Electoral Commission,

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Speaker 2: that this sort of foreign interference has come from the UK.

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Speaker 2: And that is because the head of operations for the

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Speaker 2: Labor Party, that's the party of government, posted on social

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Speaker 2: media that she had quote ten spots available for anyone

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Speaker 2: willing to travel to North Carolina to campaign for Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 2: adding we will sort out your housing. She said she

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Speaker 2: had around one hundred current and former party staff heading

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Speaker 2: to America before polling day. Now, this post on LinkedIn

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Speaker 2: has since been deleted and foreign nationals are really permitted

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Speaker 2: to serve as volunteers on campaigns in America, but as

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Speaker 2: long as they are not compensated. That's according to the

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Speaker 2: Federal Election Commission rules. And so the complaint by Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump and his campaign, he's both pretty pointed and quite

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Speaker 2: theatrical as well, referring obliquely, I think to American independence

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Speaker 2: and the War of Independence two hundred and fifty years ago.

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Speaker 2: But either way, Yeah, our Prime minister, I think, desperately

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Speaker 2: trying to play this down, saying they're doing it as

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Speaker 2: volunteers in their spare time, but others are thinking what

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Speaker 2: on earth are our government and machinations doing with this

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Speaker 2: in the American election.

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Speaker 1: Well, the trouble for Keirstarmer at this stage I would

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Speaker 1: have thought, is that odds on Trump's going to win.

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Speaker 1: And then Trump Trump is like a crazy guy, right,

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Speaker 1: he has deep, deep feels about things. So how on

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Speaker 1: earth is he going to get on with Kia when

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Speaker 1: they are two world leaders?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, It's going to be very interesting. And as

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Speaker 2: you said, you know, he didn't need a long memory

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Speaker 2: to remember this if he does get into power. So

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, a lot of concern about you know,

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Speaker 2: the fact that Keir Starmer's volunteers within the party have

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Speaker 2: potentially plunged this country into a lot worse relationship with

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Speaker 2: America should Donald Trump become a president. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, You eiver had nourovirus, Kevin Hah.

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Speaker 2: I've had something similar, whether it was never sort of

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Speaker 2: diagnosed as being nourovirus. It is, of course that very

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Speaker 2: very unpleasant bug that causes vomiting and diarrhea. It is

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Speaker 2: easily spreadable in the winter months and because of course

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Speaker 2: people tend to stay indoors, can affect peoples of all ages.

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Speaker 2: But it is really very serious, particularly in this country

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Speaker 2: and among the elderly. It is said that twelve thousand

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Speaker 2: are admitted to hospital with the bug each year. There

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Speaker 2: are eighty deaths, and it costs the NHS Health Service

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Speaker 2: roughly two hundred million New Zealand dollars a year annually.

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Speaker 2: And that's why a trial is being now undertaken with

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Speaker 2: thousands of people to find out if a new vaccine

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Speaker 2: could protect against norovirus. Indeed, they are looking for volunteers.

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Speaker 2: It sounds a dodgy experience to me that I must

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Speaker 2: say volunteering for something like that, But there will be

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Speaker 2: those keen to take part, and good on them, better.

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Speaker 1: Them than us. Now, okay, explain to me how you managed, Like,

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Speaker 1: if you were going to order a pizza with a

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Speaker 1: side of cocaine, did you have to know the special

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Speaker 1: code or did it just round?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is what prosecutors in Germany are saying. So

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Speaker 2: in West Germany police raided a pizzeria in their jurisdiction

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Speaker 2: and said that if you ordered number forty on the menu,

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Speaker 2: it was code for a pizza with a side order

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Speaker 2: of cocaine. Apparently, police went to detain the pizzeria manager

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Speaker 2: at is a part apartment. The thirty six year old

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Speaker 2: is reported to have thrown a bag of drugs out

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Speaker 2: of the window and there was a police officer underneath

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Speaker 2: ready to catch it. Police found, it is said, one

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Speaker 2: point six kilograms of cocaine, four hundred grams of cannabis

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Speaker 2: and quite a lot of cash about half a million

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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars in cash at the apartment. The restaurant

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Speaker 2: manager was released by police a few days later, but

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Speaker 2: then reopen the restaurant and then, it is alleged, continued

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Speaker 2: to sell the drug and pizza combination, quite an unusual order.

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Speaker 2: That one, isn't it? I love it? That thought.

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Speaker 1: Three everything, Gevin, Thank you appreciate it. Gevin Gray are

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent.

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