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Speaker 1: So the UK we go, Gavin Gregg, good morning to

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Speaker 1: you either, Andrew. So the European Union's twenty seven ambassadors

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Speaker 1: are all having a chinwere to discuss America's desire for Greenland.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of anger, I think, reading between

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Speaker 2: the lines, there's also a great deal of apprehension. So Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom all putting

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Speaker 2: out a joint statement. They said that tariff threats undermine

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Speaker 2: transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. So, of

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Speaker 2: course this is in response to Donald Trump, the US President,

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Speaker 2: announcing that those countries that support Greenland and disagree with

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Speaker 2: American attempts to either buy it or take it over

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Speaker 2: militarily or take it over diplomatically, that those countries would

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Speaker 2: face tariffs for ten percent from the first rising to

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Speaker 2: twenty five percent in June. And there have been thousands

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Speaker 2: of people protesting on the streets of Denmark, Greenland comes

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Speaker 2: under the Kingdom of Denmark, and thousands of people as

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Speaker 2: well in Greenland protesting against this, and France threatening something

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Speaker 2: called the anti Coercion instrument. It's never been used by

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Speaker 2: the EU but it basically would give them the power

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Speaker 2: to really enhance and retaliate their action within international law.

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Speaker 2: We really don't quite know what it means because it's

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Speaker 2: never been used. But Andrew, things are very very serious.

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Speaker 1: This is true, and good on Europe for no longer

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Speaker 1: captelling and appeating. They're they're actually trying to They're actually

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Speaker 1: finding the gats a little bit here. Meanwhile, to Tony Blair,

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Speaker 1: the former UK Prime Minister has got his fingers into

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Speaker 1: the Middle East game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, fingers in yet another pie. So this is the

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Speaker 2: so called the Board of Peace, which of course the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration is setting up, and it has asked the

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Speaker 2: former UK Prime Minister, so Tony Blair, to be a

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Speaker 2: founding executive member of that boarder piece, alongside the U

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Speaker 2: S Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Now it is said

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Speaker 2: that although Donald Trump will act as chair of the Board,

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Speaker 2: it's part of his twenty point peace plan to end

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Speaker 2: the war course between Israel and Gaza. Tony Blair course

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Speaker 2: famously Prime Minister here from nineteen ninety seven to two

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Speaker 2: thousand and seven, but famously took the UK into the

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Speaker 2: Iraq War in two thousand and three and has since

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Speaker 2: been serving as the Middle East end boy for the

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Speaker 2: quartet of international powers that is America, European Union, Russia

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Speaker 2: and the United Nations. Now plenty of people are saying, well,

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Speaker 2: hang on a minute, this is all well and good,

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Speaker 2: but where are the Palestine? Where are the Palestinians in

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Speaker 2: this particular board. And you know, Tony Blair not the

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Speaker 2: best record, one might argue, with his record of going

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Speaker 2: to war with Iraq. So yeah, plenty of people questioning

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Speaker 2: those posts currently being unveiled.

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Speaker 1: He is, No, He's not Muslim's favorite person. Gavin Gray

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