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Speaker 1: Now you can. You're a corresponding. Devin Gray is with

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Speaker 1: us this morning. Devin, good morning. The US is middling

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Speaker 1: in the UK's justice system.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, mind you Ryan. This will seem extraordinary to

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Speaker 2: some listeners, but the US government has blocked a British

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Speaker 2: court hearing from taking place on a British territory. It

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Speaker 2: does sound utterly bizarre, but we're talking here about a

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Speaker 2: British Indian Ocean territory, an island called Diego Garcia. Now

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Speaker 2: it's got a long complicated history, but it is British.

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Speaker 2: It took control of the Chagos Islands that was part

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Speaker 2: of Mauritius back in nineteen sixty five and then went

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Speaker 2: on to evict the population of more than a thousand

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Speaker 2: people to make way from military base. And it's the

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Speaker 2: military base, which yes, you guessed, is now American and

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Speaker 2: which the Americans object to this court hearing. The court

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Speaker 2: hearing is all about some migrants trying to make it

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Speaker 2: to Canada and they're on the island at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It was due to be a court in a British court,

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Speaker 2: but the Americans said, oh no, you darn't. We don't

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Speaker 2: actually think it's a good idea to have members of

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Speaker 2: the press here. We don't think it's a good idea

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Speaker 2: for all these lawyers to fly in. And because America

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Speaker 2: runs all the accommodation, the food and the transport, they

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Speaker 2: are quite simply able to say you're not coming on

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Speaker 2: the island. As I said, it's complicated, but it seems

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary state of play.

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Speaker 1: It certainly does. What about this investigation into the French

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Speaker 1: fire right, the National Rally over allegations of inappropriate financing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so this is all aimed at Marine Lapenn She

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Speaker 2: is the leader of the National Rally party, of the

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Speaker 2: far right party in France that did so well in

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Speaker 2: the National Assembly elections just finished though did not get

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Speaker 2: a majority. But prosecutors in Paris and out saying they're

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Speaker 2: looking to allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud. And this

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Speaker 2: was all over her attempt to become president back in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Now for some they're thinking, hey, on

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Speaker 2: a minute, is this because they're trying to scuffer her

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Speaker 2: popularity because she did very well in these elections. But

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Speaker 2: the authorities say no, this is all about the fact

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Speaker 2: she's received loans in the past from Russia. And Hungarian banks.

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Speaker 2: The Russian loan was worth some eighteen million New Zealand dollars,

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Speaker 2: but that was all paid back last year. So the

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Speaker 2: investigations will go on and this particular court will judge

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Speaker 2: her and twenty four other party members in September. And

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Speaker 2: just briefly round before you go. Sad news for New

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Speaker 2: Zealand's Lulu Sun Running. I'm afraid a good campaign in

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Speaker 2: winwood and tennis but knocked out by the crow at

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Speaker 2: Donna Vikisch this morning. Our time court number one with

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Speaker 2: the roof on, we've had terrible weather. Having knocked out

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Speaker 2: Britain's Emma Redi Khana in the fourth round, she was

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Speaker 2: hoping to become the first qualifier to reach the women's

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Speaker 2: semi finals since nineteen ninety nine. I'm afraid it wasn't

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Speaker 2: to be. She got beaten five seven sixty fourth six ' one.

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Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK your correspondent. She'll be back, don't

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Speaker 1: worry about that. It is tin away from For more

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