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Speaker 1: Right now, Gevin Gray in the UK for US givin

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Speaker 1: good morning. Hither are now eight men arrested over a

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Speaker 1: suspected TIRA plot involving a target, a specific target. Do

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Speaker 1: we know what it was?

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Speaker 2: No, we're not being told that. We do know that

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Speaker 2: of the eight, seven are Iranian nationals. Now, it's a

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Speaker 2: combination of two different police operations going on around the UK,

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Speaker 2: A gang of three, it said, being arrested in and

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Speaker 2: around London, but also five others arrested at various locations

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Speaker 2: around England. Part they're saying of a pre planned investigation

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Speaker 2: into an alleged plot too, as you said, target a

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Speaker 2: specific premises. Now, all five who were arrested around the

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Speaker 2: country were arrested on suspicion appropriation of an act of terrorism.

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Speaker 2: In the second operation, the three men aged between thirty

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Speaker 2: nine and fifty five were arrested under the National Security

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Speaker 2: Act at different addresses. What's interesting about this ran, you

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Speaker 2: might think, well, Iranian nationals in the UK. Well, that

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Speaker 2: is a common thread to what's going on here, because

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Speaker 2: just last year the director general of mi I five

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Speaker 2: said his organization and police have responded to twenty Iran

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Speaker 2: backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens in

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Speaker 2: UK residents since January of twenty twenty two, so twenty

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Speaker 2: plots over a period of just over two and a

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Speaker 2: half years. When he said that, and that, I think

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Speaker 2: goes some way to show you just where MI I

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Speaker 2: five is getting so busy.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now, what's the problem with your heating or potential

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Speaker 1: problem with your heating?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, in the nineteen eighties, meters were fitted to

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Speaker 2: effectively switch between peak and off peak use of electricity,

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Speaker 2: because of course off peak is cheaper. However, these so

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Speaker 2: called RTS Radio Teleswitching System meters were replaced eventually by

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Speaker 2: smart meters, although frankly many people don't trust those in

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Speaker 2: their home either. Anyway, this old technology is going to

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Speaker 2: be switched off on the thirtieth of June, but it's

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Speaker 2: estimated by some in the industry that there are still

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Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty thousand households using RTS meters for

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Speaker 2: their heating and hot water, and only one thousand are

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Speaker 2: being replaced each day. So by doing the maths, thinking

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Speaker 2: this has to be done by the thirtieth of June,

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Speaker 2: there's simply going to be nowhere near hitting the number

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Speaker 2: of households that they need to do in order to

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Speaker 2: get these people's monitors basically updated. And they're saying there

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Speaker 2: is a very real risk that once this system is

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Speaker 2: switched off, this long wave radio frequency system, then that

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Speaker 2: could mean that people are left without hot water or heating.

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Speaker 2: It is our summer, so that should be okay, but

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Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty inconvenient for many people, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Devin, Good to have you on. Devin Gray, our

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Speaker 1: UK correspondent.

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