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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray are UK correspondent with us this evening given

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Speaker 1: hello in the twentieth anniversary of the London TIRA attacks

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Speaker 1: seven seven, King Charles is calling on the nation to remember.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, the series of events ryan now through

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Speaker 2: London today at which the King, Prime Minister other members

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Speaker 2: of their royal family are taking part and looking back

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Speaker 2: on these attacks which left fifty two people dead and

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Speaker 2: more than seven hundred and fifty injured on the seventh

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Speaker 2: of July two thousand and five on three underground trains

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Speaker 2: and a bus. Is going to see an important moment

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Speaker 2: that twenty years on, to see how has the country changed.

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Speaker 2: Has it changed much? Well? King Charles's message saying that

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Speaker 2: people stand united against those who would seek to divide us.

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Speaker 2: Condemning the senseless acts of evil, The Prime Minister said

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Speaker 2: that the country will unite today to remember the lives

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Speaker 2: lost and all those whose lives were changed forever. There

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Speaker 2: were more than seven hundred run who were injured as well,

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Speaker 2: some of them with life changing injuries. But these events

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Speaker 2: today will also I think, be looking at what has

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Speaker 2: caused them Already. A former senior police officer has described

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Speaker 2: the fact that we can't deny that foreign policy can

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Speaker 2: sometimes impact what happens here at home, of course, referring

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Speaker 2: to the fact that Tony blairs foreign policy was led

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Speaker 2: to blame by many for those attacks on the seventh

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Speaker 2: of July, and currently, of course, the UK stance over

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Speaker 2: what's happening between Israel in Gaza is another factor.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on with Poland? There sending troops to

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Speaker 1: the border with Germany. What's that about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, five thousand troops and potentially as well as some

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Speaker 2: drone surveillance operators as well. This is all over a

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Speaker 2: row that has been going up between the governments in

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Speaker 2: Warsaw and Berlin in how to deal with refugees trying

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Speaker 2: to cross between the two countries. Now, for a long time,

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Speaker 2: Poland has been blamed Russia and Belarus for what it

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Speaker 2: believes is an orchestrated influx of migrants. In other words,

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Speaker 2: it's being alleged that Russia and Belarus are basically coaching

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Speaker 2: migrants to the border and then encouraging them to get

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Speaker 2: into Poland and other Eastern European countries. Now, both Belarus

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Speaker 2: and Russia deny that, but it has led to a

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Speaker 2: sudden massive spike in the number of people from the

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Speaker 2: East trying to seek asylum in those countries, and it

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Speaker 2: means that sort of that some migrants have literally been

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Speaker 2: going ping pong across the two countries of Poland and Germany,

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Speaker 2: and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's liberal government has

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Speaker 2: been accused by opposition parties there of accepting numerous illegal

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Speaker 2: migrants being sent back to Poland from Germany. Now Tusk

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Speaker 2: narrowly survived a confidence vote in the Polish parliament, but

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Speaker 2: the president elect has campaigned on a promise to ensure

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Speaker 2: that basically favor Poles over all other nationalities, including Ukrainian refugees.

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Speaker 2: So a big, big change here at the heart of you,

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Speaker 2: at where coourse we're supposed to have complete free movement

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Speaker 2: of people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting development, isn't it now? Nineteen twenty three the

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Speaker 1: last time that people swam in the sein and outside

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Speaker 1: of the Olympics, and now it's open for everybody. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: Will you.

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Speaker 2: Be having a dip given ah aah, No, I don't

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Speaker 2: think I will. Still a bit brown and murky for me.

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Speaker 2: But the first very hardy, adventurous swimmers have been in

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Speaker 2: for their dip. So the band came in in nineteen

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Speaker 2: twenty three basically because of pollution, and the French government

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Speaker 2: spent an enormous amount of money roughly two point eight

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Speaker 2: billion New Zealand dollars to tidy up the River Saane.

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Speaker 2: The problem is it's an old structure, rather like the Thames,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of effluent and fecal material ends up

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Speaker 2: going into the river. Now they've managed to stop a

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Speaker 2: lot of that and it is certainly better than it was,

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Speaker 2: as the Thames is much better. But would I go

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Speaker 2: in for a dit No, I don't think so. But

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Speaker 2: this has been a huge project, part incidentally of the

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Speaker 2: promise to the Olympic authorities that there would be a

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Speaker 2: legacy following last year's Olympics that they were going to

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Speaker 2: make the river quality much better. But still I think

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Speaker 2: with heavy rain, I'm afraid some of that sort of

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Speaker 2: excess water tends to be washed in to the river

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Speaker 2: with a whole load of other things that we weren't mentioned,

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Speaker 2: which did lead to some very nasty stomach bugs in

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Speaker 2: the past. But nevertheless, always good to see some environmental measures.

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Speaker 2: But I have to say the bill seems inordinately high.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally out of wek, doesn't it Gevin, thank you

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Speaker 1: for that. Devin Gray are UK europe correspondent. For more

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