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Speaker 1: Devin Gray UK correspondents. Will I say, Kevin, Hi, there

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Speaker 1: have that right? So Austria, I've got three days of

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Speaker 1: national mourning yet.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's begun after a very emotional raw night as well.

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Speaker 2: In the second largest city in Austria called Gratz yesterday

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Speaker 2: it was the scene of a shooting in which ten

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Speaker 2: people were killed and the suspect themselves then killed themselves

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Speaker 2: in the school toilets and the area really completely devastated

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Speaker 2: by this Austrian nomally and extremely peaceful city. So the

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Speaker 2: three days of national morning has begun and in another

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Speaker 2: hour and ten minutes the minute silence will fall across

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Speaker 2: the nation as well, marking twenty four hours on from

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Speaker 2: the moment that the killing started at this school. The

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Speaker 2: motive still remains unknown. There's a report that the attacker

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Speaker 2: left a noted his home, but we haven't had the

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Speaker 2: details of that yet. We do still know that it

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Speaker 2: looks like there are eleven people still in the hospital,

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Speaker 2: some of them critically injured, so concerned for them of course,

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Speaker 2: and a big appeal for blood within that city as

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Speaker 2: well for the hospitals running short of that. Plus in

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Speaker 2: the main square of vigil overnight of candles. They have

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Speaker 2: all gathered from around the city there right through the

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Speaker 2: night to basically show their support for those who have

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Speaker 2: been affected by this and to remember those who have died.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me about what's going on with the UK

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Speaker 1: Foreign Office staff who raised concerns.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so an open well, not an open letter. It

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Speaker 2: was a letter written by staff roughly three hundred Foreign

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Speaker 2: Office staff and sent to the Foreign Secretary and it

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Speaker 2: basically said they called there was a quote stark disregard

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Speaker 2: for international law by Israel with their conduct in Gaza,

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Speaker 2: and they said they also profoundly disagreed with government policy.

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Speaker 2: And then the Foreign Office as shot back saying well,

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Speaker 2: if you do profoundly disagree, then you can always resign.

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Speaker 2: The Foreign Office says it's got sister, was in place

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Speaker 2: for staff to raise concerns and that the government had

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Speaker 2: quote rigorously applied international law in relation to the war

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Speaker 2: in Gaza. This government coming under a lot of pressure

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Speaker 2: both from ordinary people but from within as well, saying

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Speaker 2: look are we actually complying legally with what we're meant

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Speaker 2: to be doing here? And also just shouldn't we be

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Speaker 2: condemning Israel more than we are? There were sanctions announced

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Speaker 2: yesterday on two ministers in the Israeli government. But something

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Speaker 2: that's just not enough. We can't stand by and see

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Speaker 2: the scenes that we're seeing on our news nightly in

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Speaker 2: Gaza for this to carry on. But this is quite

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Speaker 2: a start warning to those civil servants, particularly at a

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Speaker 2: time when they're already being warned that they could really

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Speaker 2: be slimmed down in numbers under the government's drive for efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Tell you what, Gevin Laura of the German is very

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Speaker 1: very excited about the trains running from London to Germany,

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a really good service that I'm hoping

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Speaker 2: will come in already. Of course, we do have our

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Speaker 2: regular trains that run under the English Channel from London

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Speaker 2: and we connect to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, and they

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Speaker 2: even go to the French Alps in the ski season.

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Speaker 2: But two new routes have been announced into Germany and Switzerland.

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Speaker 2: The travel time between London and Frankfurt will be about

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Speaker 2: five hours and five hours twenty to go to Geneva,

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Speaker 2: and there are questions over the expansion. The firm does

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Speaker 2: need to make sure it's got enough space for more

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Speaker 2: trains at its depot in East London. But the boss

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Speaker 2: of Eurostars saying there's strong demand for train travel across

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Speaker 2: Europe despite higher operational costs and inflation squeezing customer budgets.

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Speaker 2: One other fact that he didn't mention there is it's

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Speaker 2: often actually cheaper now to get on a flight than

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Speaker 2: it is to go for short hauled train journeys. But

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Speaker 2: that is something which perhaps over time with the increase

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Speaker 2: in oil, might change as well. Nevertheless, there are hopes

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Speaker 2: to get these new train lines up and running by

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Speaker 2: the early twenty thirties.

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Speaker 1: Hi cool, Thank you very much, Kevin, appreciate it. Gevin

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