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Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK correspondents with US. Hello, Gevin, Hi there.

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Speaker 1: He so Keiostam has capitulated on the air bases.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we think he has. He's been under a lot

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Speaker 2: of pressure and has been for a last few weeks

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Speaker 2: to allow America to use a couple of the Arif

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Speaker 2: bases on which to fly long range missions. Now, originally

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Speaker 2: we think he was asked for use of the Royal

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Speaker 2: Air Force base at Fairford, which is in Gloucestershire, to

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Speaker 2: the west of London in the West Country, and also

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Speaker 2: the joint US UK base on Diego Garcia, one of

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Speaker 2: the Chagos Islands off in the Indian Ocean. Now he

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Speaker 2: originally declined that use about three three and a half

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. Now he's turned around and say, actually, yes

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Speaker 2: they Americans can use these bases, but only for defensive strikes.

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Speaker 2: He's calling it and he said, we've learnt the mistakes

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Speaker 2: of Iraq and the UK was not involved in the

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Speaker 2: initial strikes on Iran and will not join the offensive

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Speaker 2: action now he said. So he's caught between those more

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Speaker 2: hawkish saying he's let America down. We should have been

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Speaker 2: in this from the start. Others are saying he's now

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Speaker 2: gone and flip flopped the other way, and they don't

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Speaker 2: want Britain to become involved in any way, shape or

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Speaker 2: form of what's going on, saying, let us hear quite

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Speaker 2: clearly from the government is this legal under international law

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Speaker 2: or not? And so far all the ministers on television, radio,

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Speaker 2: print are all refusing to answer that single question. So

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Speaker 2: it looks like Donald Trump's got his way with the

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Speaker 2: use of these RIF basis for long range strikes, but

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Speaker 2: only after the start of this action in Iran.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do we know about this chep who's been

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Speaker 1: charged with the graffiti on the Sir Winston Churchill statue.

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Speaker 2: Very interesting case this because in the early hours of

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Speaker 2: the Friday there gris graffiti appearing on the very famous

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Speaker 2: Winston CHURCHI or statue. It is a couple of meat

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Speaker 2: off the ground. It actually stands in total three point

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Speaker 2: six meters and it was unveiled in nineteen seventy three

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Speaker 2: and for many people it absolutely epitomized as Winston jurch

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Speaker 2: L and everything he stood for, that very no nonsense

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Speaker 2: approach and so forth. However, over the years it has

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Speaker 2: become a target for the disaffected, and on this case

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Speaker 2: A thirty eight year old man called Caspar San Giorgio,

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Speaker 2: believed to come from the Netherlands but of no fixed address,

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Speaker 2: has already been arrested in by the police in London

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Speaker 2: and charged with effectively criminal damage. Now, basically what was

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Speaker 2: spread on the statue is never again is now now.

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Speaker 2: Never again of course, relates to a speech church or

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Speaker 2: made about we must never get into world wars again

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Speaker 2: and free Palestine and also globalized the into fathera Now

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Speaker 2: what's interesting is that the police in London made that

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Speaker 2: particular sentence globalized the inn Father a criminal offense, and

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Speaker 2: so he's no doubt facing charges for the damage to

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Speaker 2: the statue, which will has already been cleaned off and

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Speaker 2: there's cost thousands of dollars to do so. But also

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Speaker 2: if he has spray painted with red paint globalized the Interfather,

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Speaker 2: that could be a separate thing altogether. Now we don't

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Speaker 2: yet know what he's saying about these charges yet, but

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Speaker 2: this is all to do its thought and linked with

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Speaker 2: the arrests that have been made over support for Palestine

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Speaker 2: Action group that's been labeled as terrorist group here but

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Speaker 2: has been subject to many many protests over the last

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Speaker 2: few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Keevin, I see, apparently we've been writing a lot longer

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Speaker 1: than we thought we had.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a rather funny story because experts have always,

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Speaker 2: you know, begun to pin down when they think that

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Speaker 2: people started writing, or make notes as it were, making

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Speaker 2: some sort of annotations as to when we first began

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Speaker 2: talking about emotions, and they believed it to be some

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Speaker 2: five thousand years ago in ancient Iraq or Mesopotamia. However,

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Speaker 2: now the researchers of discerned patterns of meaning in lines, notches,

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Speaker 2: dots and crosses on objects like mammoth tusks in caves

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Speaker 2: in Germany, and they are forty five thousand years old,

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Speaker 2: so it completely blows the previous theory out of the water. Now,

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Speaker 2: the precise meaning of the symbols in Germany remains a mystery.

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Speaker 2: And I have to tell you here they having seen

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Speaker 2: a picture of these dots, notches, lines, crosses, I can't

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Speaker 2: see how they actually think this is somebody talking about

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Speaker 2: their thoughts and feelings, but perhaps it is. Anyway, this

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Speaker 2: has really changed the way in which people think things

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Speaker 2: are going on. Some three thousand characters on two hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty objects have been uncovered in these caves. They're

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Speaker 2: calling it the DNA of writing.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, thanks very much, appreciate it. Gavin Gray are UK correspondent.

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