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Speaker 1: Gavin Grin is a UK correspondent. He's with US now

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Speaker 1: high given hither run and the UK PM this is Stama,

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Speaker 1: he said, he is really and willing to put UK

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Speaker 1: troops on the ground. He's written and up here in

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Speaker 1: the papers over the in Ukraine to help guarantee its

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Speaker 1: security as pan of a peace deal. But you know,

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Speaker 1: can you do that?

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you actually able to ah?

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Speaker 2: Very good question. At the weekend, Lord Danat, he's the

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Speaker 2: former head of the army, had given an interview saying

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Speaker 2: the UK military is so run down it couldn't lead

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Speaker 2: any future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. But that doesn't prevent,

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Speaker 2: of course, some involvement in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: which I think is what is going to be pushed

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Speaker 2: now at this meeting. As European leaders gather in Paris

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Speaker 2: for today's meeting, they have seen America contact Russia directly

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Speaker 2: to negotiate or try to negotiate some form of a

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Speaker 2: peace steal for the war in Ukraine, but they haven't

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Speaker 2: involved Ukraine itself, and European leaders are annoyed that being

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Speaker 2: right on their border, they aren't involved in it either,

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Speaker 2: which is why they're having this meeting later today and

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Speaker 2: Skirstarmer is meeting there. He's basically going to suggest that

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Speaker 2: this peacekeeping force is put in place, he said, putting

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Speaker 2: our ground on the troops if necessary, because when peace comes,

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Speaker 2: it cannot merely be a temporary pause before Putin attacks again.

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Speaker 2: That's the very real fear, having taken Crimea already, that

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin will accept more Land in a peace deal

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Speaker 2: and then perhaps well, nothing really happened. I'll try and

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Speaker 2: ma luck again. That's the fear of European leaders, that's

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Speaker 2: the fear of the Ukrainians, of course, and it comes

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Speaker 2: as the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to

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Speaker 2: meet Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in the coming days.

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Speaker 2: And nobody knows what president and President Trump is willing

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Speaker 2: to give away of Ukraine that isn't his to give away,

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Speaker 2: So huge concern here in Europe.

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Speaker 1: What more do we know about the stebbing a tack

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Speaker 1: in Austria given.

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Speaker 2: Well over the weekend, I'm afraid there was this horrid

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Speaker 2: attack in which a fourteen year old boy was killed

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Speaker 2: and five people wounded. It was a knife attack. A

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Speaker 2: twenty three year old Syrian asylum seeker is the main suspect.

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Speaker 2: He's been detained. It happened in the south of Austria,

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Speaker 2: near the border with Italy and Slovenia. Police initially said

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Speaker 2: they'd yet to establish a motive, and that is kind

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Speaker 2: of they're still their go to answer, but they say

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Speaker 2: they now do believe it could involve extremism specialists in

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Speaker 2: the investigation, and that is because plenty of people in

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Speaker 2: Austria are now reporting this is being linked to Islamic State.

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Speaker 2: There are some really awful pictures of a man sat

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Speaker 2: down having conducted the attack. It's alleged smiling at the

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Speaker 2: police officers waiting to arrest him, holding a knife. It's reported.

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Speaker 2: But I'm afraid, of course, this comes after the attack

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Speaker 2: in Munich in Germany, in which a car was driven

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Speaker 2: into a crowd of people. A couple of people over

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Speaker 2: the weekend who are injured have since died. And again

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Speaker 2: that was an Afghan man trying to seek some asylum.

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Speaker 2: So I'm afraid plenty for Europe to digest this morning,

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Speaker 2: and particularly as both countries in political turmoil. Germany goes

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Speaker 2: to the polls on at the weekend, with a strong

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Speaker 2: showing in opinion polls now for far right and right

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Speaker 2: wing parties, and Austria unable to form a government trying

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Speaker 2: to avoid involving the Freedom Party, the far right party

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Speaker 2: there which did so well in their recent elections.

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Speaker 1: Is it just me or does it seem like the

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Speaker 1: authorities there are much quicker now to admit or concede.

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Speaker 1: I suppose that the accused of these, you know, in

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Speaker 1: these attacks are asylum seekers. I suppose in contrast to

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Speaker 1: what was happening over in your country, it seems like

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Speaker 1: they're quite quick to say, yes, we're confirming this was

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Speaker 1: an asylum seeker, we believe what was behind this, and

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Speaker 1: this was the potential motive.

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Speaker 2: That's a very interesting Yeah. There was so much criticism

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Speaker 2: at the attacks in Southport, northwest London by a single

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Speaker 2: man who went in and started to attack people at

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Speaker 2: a playgroup, and the police was so slow to come

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Speaker 2: forward with any information, and of course it led to

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Speaker 2: those riots when social media rumors took over. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think you might be right there. I think the UK

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Speaker 2: used to be quite quick in revealing what they knew

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Speaker 2: the authorities, but it would seem not anymore, and then

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Speaker 2: the big accusation of course, from America and others. Is

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Speaker 2: anyone that speaks out in a right wing voice is

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Speaker 2: immediately labeled far right and occasionally imprison or at court

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Speaker 2: for things they've said on social media.

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Speaker 1: Yeah interesting, Hey, French customs, I love this story. If

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Speaker 1: customs officers have found nine dinosaur teeth during a routine

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Speaker 1: check of the Italian border.

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Speaker 2: It's an extraordinary fine, isn't it. And it is a

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Speaker 2: road that is regularly checked, the road the eight motorway,

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Speaker 2: and they inspected a Spanish lorry and immediately apparently spotted

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Speaker 2: the fossils in two parcels. They then sent them off

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Speaker 2: to be examined in the nearby city of Menton, and

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Speaker 2: then an expert said, yeah, these are dinosaur teeth. They

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Speaker 2: are between seventy two and sixty six million years old,

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Speaker 2: and they believe to have come from Morocco. Now that's

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Speaker 2: quite interesting because that would suggest maybe this is a

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Speaker 2: lorry on board a ferry going from North Africa to

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Speaker 2: southern Europe. And one of the teeth is identified to

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Speaker 2: belong to a marine reptile measuring about three meters in length,

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Speaker 2: and three belong to another one called the most Asaurus

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Speaker 2: and aquatic creature that measured up to twelve meters. Suffice

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Speaker 2: to say, investigations are continuing and questioning continues.

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Speaker 1: To what a fine for a routine chick? Evin, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. Kevin Gray, UK correspondent with us.

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