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Speaker 1: In the Brady is a UK correspondent. He's with us

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Speaker 1: right now in the good evening.

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Speaker 2: To you, hey, Ryan, lovely to speak to you again.

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Speaker 1: Now. The boss of Heathrow is going to face a

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Speaker 1: parliament next week over the fire, FIESCO. What are we expecting?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think they're going to turn their verbal fire

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Speaker 2: on him because people are very angry about what happened

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Speaker 2: on Friday. Now. Thomas Wolby is the chief executive Heathrow Airport.

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Speaker 2: He's quick to point out that it is not the

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Speaker 2: airport's fault that there was a fire at an electricity

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Speaker 2: substation on Thursday night, but a lot has emerged since.

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Speaker 2: So he took the decision that his deputy would work

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Speaker 2: through the night and that he, the CEO, would go

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Speaker 2: home sleep and then wake up refreshed for the task

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Speaker 2: on Friday of making the decisions that would ultimately get

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Speaker 2: the airport open again to the traveling public on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying why didn't you just

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Speaker 2: work on How could you sleep? The Transport Minister here,

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Speaker 2: Hidi Alexander. She's even come out on radio and said

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to sleep if that had happened

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Speaker 2: in my job, and I was dealing with the closure

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Speaker 2: of the biggest airport in Europe and the busiest I

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Speaker 2: would not be able to sleep. So I think he

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Speaker 2: can expect a few verbal bullets next week. He's under pressure.

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Speaker 2: But it has just shown up the chronic problems we

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Speaker 2: have deep in our infrastructure in the UK. That a

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Speaker 2: fire at a substation a few miles away knocks out

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Speaker 2: an airport with three hundred thousand passengers going through it.

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Speaker 1: Goodness may well, we'll look forward to that little inquiry.

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Speaker 1: Kese Thamas is he wants to fix every pothole in Britain.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I think it was John Lennon who sang

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Speaker 2: that there were four thousand potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire. That

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Speaker 2: was in the sixties. Well, I think he'd be underestimating

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Speaker 2: the task at hand now because in all honesty, I

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Speaker 2: run a lot, as you know, Ryan, I now run

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Speaker 2: cross country mostly because the danger of twisting an ankle

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Speaker 2: or worse, because of the pothole situation here. It is

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Speaker 2: so bad now. Kre Starmer has given a radio interview.

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Speaker 2: He actually said, at this moment in time, as I'm speaking,

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Speaker 2: someone will be driving over a pothole. He used the

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Speaker 2: figure seven hundred million, not dollars in terms of fixing

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Speaker 2: the problems. Seven hundred million potholes is what the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister believes there are to be fixed in the UK.

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Speaker 2: So he was challenged on how he's going to do this,

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Speaker 2: and he used the phrase AI and tech eight times

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Speaker 2: and the presenter said, well, just explain how that works,

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Speaker 2: and he goes, look very simple, he said, each time

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Speaker 2: the Council fills in a pothole, they go online, they'll

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Speaker 2: update it, they get some more money and they can

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Speaker 2: go fill another one. So that's where we are right now,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred million potholes in the UK. According to Kure Starmer.

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Speaker 1: Goodness may may how much AI's got to do with

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Speaker 1: fixing it, but that's interesting by putting.

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Speaker 2: It men with shovels and gravel, Ryan, that's that's what's

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Speaker 2: not AI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, very quickly right. She is going to address

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Speaker 1: Parliament this week, the House of Commons. Do we know

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Speaker 1: whether they're going to cut the universal school lunches? Have

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Speaker 1: you heard anything about that or is that all just

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Speaker 1: scuttle that rumor?

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Speaker 2: I think everything's being cut. I think Britain is heading

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Speaker 2: back to austerity. There is no money. Not only is

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Speaker 2: she getting rid of the school lunches for really kind

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Speaker 2: of disadvantaged, vulnerable kids, fifty thousand civil servants are going

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Speaker 2: to lose their jobs. I think Britain is heading back

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Speaker 2: into a decade of austerity. There is no money left here,

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Speaker 2: there is no growth and we are where.

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Speaker 1: We are finally. Connor McGregor wants to run for president

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Speaker 1: of Ireland.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, watch this one, it's going to be interesting. He's

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Speaker 2: making a lot of noise online For anyone who doesn't

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Speaker 2: know who Connor McGregor is. He is an extremely wealthy

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Speaker 2: and successful cage fighter from that UFC brand in America.

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Speaker 2: He is Irish. He's Dublin through and through. He has

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Speaker 2: a really bad reputation amongst a lot of people in Ireland.

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Speaker 2: There was a civil case brought against him in court

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Speaker 2: last year for sexual assault by a woman, which he lost.

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Speaker 2: There was a previous conviction for punching an elderly man

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Speaker 2: in a pub. Yeah. He's been speaking out about immigration

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Speaker 2: and a lot of illegal immigrants coming into Ireland. He

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Speaker 2: is getting some support on the far right of the

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Speaker 2: political spectrum in Ireland. But the problem he has in

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Speaker 2: terms of becoming president, you need twenty elected representatives to

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Speaker 2: come out and say they back you. He's not going

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Speaker 2: to get twenty. In fact, I would go so far

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Speaker 2: as to say if I ran against him, I from

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Speaker 2: County Wexford as a journalist, I would get twenty people

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Speaker 2: to back me and he would get zero. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not being big headed here, I'm just stating facts.

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Speaker 1: Right, Thig So much for that in the in the

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Speaker 1: Brady a UK Correspondent.

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