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Speaker 1: Devin Gray are UK correspondents with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, hey, Kevin, hi there, Heather, Okay, so tell me.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here. So the Greek coastcard has reportedly

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Speaker 1: thrown people deliberately into the into the water and caused

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Speaker 1: their death.

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Speaker 2: That's what the BBC is alleging. Its research has shown.

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Speaker 2: The Greek government has long been accused of what are

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Speaker 2: called forced returns, in other words, pushing people back, in

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Speaker 2: this case towards Turkey where they've crossed from, which is

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Speaker 2: illegal under international law. The Turkish authorities were at one point,

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Speaker 2: of course, in a deal with the EU stopping migrants

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Speaker 2: and refugees from crossing into Greece. That deal in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: but after four years Turkey said it can no longer

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Speaker 2: enforce it. And Greece has had some two hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty three thousand sea arrivals in the last year alone,

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Speaker 2: and that's across, sorry, the all of the EU, with

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Speaker 2: Greece receiving about forty one and a half thousand of those.

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Speaker 2: So it is a massive problem, and Greece is always

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Speaker 2: being very keen to deny these so called pushbacks. So

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Speaker 2: human rights groups allege thousands of people seeking asylum in

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Speaker 2: Europe have been illegally forced back, so in precision. In

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Speaker 2: more detail, the BBC is alleging that in one particular incident,

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Speaker 2: nine people died as a result of being forced back

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Speaker 2: into Greek territorial waters. It's alleged that they often arrive

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Speaker 2: in an island, they are often then prevented from going

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Speaker 2: to a particular center that they need to in order

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Speaker 2: to claim asylum. Instead, they're put on a boat and

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Speaker 2: towed back out onto the water. And sometimes it's alleged

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Speaker 2: with either the valve of the inflatable deliberately loosened, or

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Speaker 2: indeed the boat is partially punctured. So there are some

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Speaker 2: really serious accusations here, and the Greeks are saying that's

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Speaker 2: just not true. We work very hard with these asylum

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Speaker 2: seekers to process them.

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Speaker 1: Devin. Why is the strength of feeling in Germany so

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Speaker 1: much re Vladimir Zelinsky that they booed Rod Stewart.

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Speaker 2: I do know. It's an interesting one, this and it

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Speaker 2: happened in Leipzig, and it just goes to show I

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Speaker 2: think that actually there is partially in some areas, a

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Speaker 2: bit of a tiredness with the whole Ukrainian Russian War.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Europe hasn't suffered in that sense of being

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Speaker 2: at the sharp end of the war, but prices of

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Speaker 2: fuel and so forth have really rocketed along with wheats,

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Speaker 2: so they're feeling it that way, and then I fear

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Speaker 2: as well there is this element perhaps of right wing

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Speaker 2: groups actually supporting Russia. So what happened was the seventy

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Speaker 2: nine year old singer was playing at Leipzig's Quarterback Immobilian

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Speaker 2: Arena and before performing the nineteen ninety one hit Rhythm

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Speaker 2: of My Heart, he calls that a war song and

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Speaker 2: he's dedicated it to Kiev in recent shows. So before

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Speaker 2: performing this that Leipzig, the Ukrainian flag was projected onto

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Speaker 2: a screen behind him, and then images of v Lodo

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Speaker 2: min Zelenski, the President of the Ukraine, are shown. But

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Speaker 2: that seemed to prompt loud booze, shouts and whistles from

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Speaker 2: the crowd, with videos from social media showing the crowd

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Speaker 2: appearing to jeer him as he salutes the Ukrainian president.

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Speaker 2: Now this is a really interesting aspect in that Sir

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Speaker 2: Rod Stuart has talked in the past about how he

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Speaker 2: believes Russia really is committing terrible crimes against Ukraine, and

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Speaker 2: also revealed he'd rented and furnished a home for a

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Speaker 2: family of seven Ukrainian refugees here in the UK. He said,

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Speaker 2: quote words couldn't describe what we were watching anyway. Whether

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Speaker 2: he's now going to have more boeing booing rather remains

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Speaker 2: to be seen. He is in fact returning to Germany

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Speaker 2: for a show at Hamburg's Bartley's Arena later this month

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Speaker 2: before going to Cologne and Munich, and a representative for

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Speaker 2: Sir rod Well has been asked to comment but has

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Speaker 2: yet to make any statement.

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Speaker 1: Interesting Kevin, Hey, thank you very much, enjoy your evening.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again in a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Gavin Gray are UK corresponding for more from Hither Duplessy

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