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Speaker 1: Vincent Mecavinia is with us now. Hello Vincent, Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about the reaction to the Gaza rivieraplane.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's been a huge reaction across Europe and the

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Speaker 2: Middle East to this plan, and I think it can

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Speaker 2: be said it is sort of universal condemnation of the

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Speaker 2: very idea. The terms ethnic cleansing are being used by leaders,

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Speaker 2: but they're all sort of having to be very careful

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Speaker 2: in how they come out and criticize what Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: has said, because Donald Trump's team tried to walk things

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Speaker 2: back yesterday, but this morning in Washington, DC, he's reiterated

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Speaker 2: he wants to clear the Palestinians out. He wants to

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Speaker 2: make this so called riviera of the Middle East. And

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Speaker 2: so what countries are doing is they're sort of not

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Speaker 2: trying to When leaders are like Sakir Starmer, for instance

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Speaker 2: here in Britain, are being asked questions about this plan,

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Speaker 2: they're simply restating their own national posits. Pretty much universal

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Speaker 2: in Europe is that there is a two state solution.

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Speaker 2: That is the only solution on the table. The Palestinian

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Speaker 2: should be allowed to keep their land. So that is

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Speaker 2: the difficult dance that leaders are trying to make with Europe,

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Speaker 2: of course, very much on watch for what Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is saying about Greenland and his sort of expansionist ideas

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Speaker 2: in his second term.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then tell us about the Greek island of

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Speaker 1: center Reini. It's a beautiful place, famous for its blue

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Speaker 1: roofs and its white buildings carved into rock faces. Apparently

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Speaker 1: is falling into the sea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a picture perfect island, very popular with tourists,

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Speaker 2: so much so that it has become incredibly overcrowded in

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Speaker 2: recent years. But they've had tourists flocking off the island.

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Speaker 2: Eleven thousand have left by fairy and by air in

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Speaker 2: the past couple of days because they have had an

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Speaker 2: unprecedented continuous streak of earthquakes, one measuring five point two

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Speaker 2: and this is something that's been going on for several

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Speaker 2: days now, causing cracks and damage so far, with expectations

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Speaker 2: that this could continue for the foreseeable. So they've declared

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Speaker 2: a national an island state of emergency for the next

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Speaker 2: month because they're so worried about what could happen. As

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, those sort of famous houses and buildings sort

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Speaker 2: of carved right into the faces, which of course, might

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Speaker 2: not be able to withstand such tremors, which.

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Speaker 1: Would break my heart. I've never been Vincent mcaviny, I.

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