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Speaker 1: Joe McKenna joins us. Hello, Joe, good morning, Andrew sweating

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Speaker 1: in Italy. But we'll talk about the weather late later

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Speaker 1: because I hear it's bad or good, depending on what

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Speaker 1: you like. But Italy has committed more help for Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney is at the

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Speaker 2: NATO's summit in Washington. Now. She's been critical of the

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Speaker 2: European Union from time to time. She is of the

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Speaker 2: right wing persuasion, but her support for NATO and Ukraine

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Speaker 2: has been very solid. And she's announced that Italy will

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Speaker 2: be giving another samp Te air defense system to shoot

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Speaker 2: down Russian missiles. And that follows, of course, what we've

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Speaker 2: heard about NATO beginning to send the long promist F

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Speaker 2: sixteen jets to Ukraine as well.

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Speaker 1: Indeed as well. Zelenski has asked everybody to pitch in

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Speaker 1: having they all thirty two nations, and we've seen always

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Speaker 1: done it, We've seen the States have done it, and

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Speaker 1: now Italy has done it, and well done, thank you

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Speaker 1: so very very much. Controversially, Beerlasconi a rather controversial figure

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Speaker 1: in Italian politics. It's getting an airport named after him.

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Speaker 2: That's right. It's a year after he died, and there's

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Speaker 2: been a political fuor because you have to remember that

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Speaker 2: Silvio Belisconi, three time prime minister, was convicted of tax

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Speaker 2: evasion and his colleague, Transport Minister Matteo Slovini from the

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Speaker 2: right wing League Party is pushing him his name forward

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Speaker 2: to be the name of Milan's currently called Malpensa airport.

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Speaker 2: But you have to remember Rome Airport is named after

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Speaker 2: Leo Leonardo da Vinci, Venice is named after the explorer

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Speaker 2: Marco Polo, and Palermo Airport is named after two judges,

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Speaker 2: Falcone and Borslino, who were assassinated by the mafia because

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Speaker 2: of their efforts to fight the mafia. So you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a big call to put Silvio Belusconi in the

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Speaker 2: same league as some of these names.

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Speaker 1: Thought for Milan that you'd name the airport after a

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Speaker 1: football player, wouldn't you, since they've got two amazing football

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Speaker 1: sides up there. Or you do it after a fashion

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Speaker 1: designer since of course they believe they are the height

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Speaker 1: of fashion, don't they. So you know, but spotted in.

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Speaker 2: And of course Sylvio Berlas going he owned one of

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Speaker 2: the Milan football teams, so there's even more reason to

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Speaker 2: name it after a football player.

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Speaker 1: Well he made some good telly for a little while anyway,

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Speaker 1: so there we go. Meanwhile, we mentioned how hot it's

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Speaker 1: hot everywhere, but how hot is it in Italy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is part of the heat wave sweeping Europe.

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Speaker 2: We've had about thirty seven degrees today in Rome. It's

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Speaker 2: going up to thirty eight tomorrow. The Health Ministry has

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Speaker 2: issued a red alert heat wave warning for seven Italian

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Speaker 2: cities for tomorrow, and that includes Turin, Rome and Trieste

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Speaker 2: in the north. And this has been driven by an

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Speaker 2: African anti cyclone bringing these scorching temperatures across the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 2: And even though it's going to drop off it on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to see more of this kind

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Speaker 2: of weather in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: Do you like it?

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Speaker 2: I like a bit of it, But this is extreme

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Speaker 2: today and I haven't got aircorn in my house, so

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Speaker 2: it's a little hot in here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no one does in Europe. So the truth, because

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Speaker 1: we've got New Zealanders coming over for the summer season,

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Speaker 1: go and do your stuff earlier in the morning because

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Speaker 1: otherwise it's just too hot.

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Speaker 2: A great idea. And then you can party late at night.

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Speaker 1: Very good stuff and I thank you so much. Joe mecanna,

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