1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Into Brady, UK, corresponding, Hello, Inda, good Heather. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting flashbacks to COVID now about toilet paper. 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: My god, what's going on with you people? Are you 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: freaking out about this and starting to plant broccoli in 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: the Beck garden as well? 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 2: Not in the slightest Petrol hasn't even gone up here. 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: I live in rural Oxfordshire and I went to get 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 2: petrol the other day because I needed to get petrol. 9 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: I was on empty and I said to the guy 10 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: behind the counter, same price, and he just rolled his 11 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: eyes and there's no one else around. I was like, okay, right, 12 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: there's clearly no panic here in Stoken Church, but there 13 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: we are. There's no panic anywhere. I mean in London. 14 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: What people are most concerned about. There's a tube strike 15 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 2: next Tuesday. That's what most people are worried about. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm pleased to hear it. Okay, so we 17 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: can all settle down. Now, what's the plan? Do we 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: know yet? I mean you probably don't know, but they're 19 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: going to concoct a plan, aren't they to open the straight. 20 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: Yes, and the UK has already now dispatched military officers 21 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: to the United States to help with this planning. Now, 22 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: this is very interesting. Starmer doesn't want to get involved militarily. 23 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 2: He is a lawyer, I think privately he does not 24 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 2: think this war is in any way legal. So you're 25 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 2: not seeing any tanks, troops, or planes or aircraft characters. 26 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: Nothing is going to help the Americans in the Middle East. 27 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 2: He has, however, dispatched some top brass to the United 28 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: States to work out a plan to reopen the Strait 29 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: of hor Muzz, which coincidentally, my TV show Today Roundtable, 30 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 2: we filmed it about this and we had an ex 31 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: senior intelligence officer from the UK military and he said 32 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: he has been wargaming this for thirty years and on 33 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: every occasion, once the Strait of hor Muz remains closed, 34 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 2: Iran wins. And I said, well, how do you reopen it? 35 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 2: And he said, you put boots on the ground, which 36 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 2: they clearly don't want to do. 37 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, what is going to happen with the King's 38 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: visit to the US. 39 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: It's going ahead, we're hearing today, it will go ahead 40 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: next month. Several politicians here, labor and liberal Democrats, had 41 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 2: said that there is no way King Charles can go 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: to the United States. While they are bombing schools in Iran. 43 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: That appears to have been overruled. He is going a 44 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 2: four day trip and basically the plan is Washington, d C. 45 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 2: Then one day in what is being described as a 46 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: rural American location. Then he will go to New York 47 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 2: City and then there's talk of hitting a Caribbean island 48 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: on the way home, part of the Commonwealth, possibly Bermuda. 49 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 2: But Charles is going to America. 50 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm pleased to hear that. That's at least something. 51 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: But this miningitis has got bad and now it's in 52 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: a second uni. 53 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: Yes again in the town of Canterbury. So the University 54 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: of Kent had one case and it's all linked to 55 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 2: a nightclub event on the fifth of March and there 56 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: are reports that a lot of young people were sharing 57 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: vapes in close proximity and that is how the outbreak started. 58 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 2: We're now up to twenty cases and the latest case 59 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: has been confirmed at the other university in the town 60 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: of Canterbury. So we've got twenty cases, eleven people in 61 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: hospital and tragically two young people have lost their lives. 62 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: It's meningite's be They are now offering a vaccine and antibiotics. 63 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: But a lot of young people leaving university early for 64 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: Eastern and just getting home to their families. 65 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that. Hey, thank you Inda. As always, 66 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: we'll talk to you about our US correspondent. 67 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, Listen live to 68 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 69 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.