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senate the uk government is in
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turmoil following the resignation
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of to top politicians the chancellor
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and the health secretary of both gone saying
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they don't have confidence in the prime minister
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will have the latest and reaction
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from british businesses
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i've never go to your life it's difficult
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arroyo stable along with it started
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trying about even go to mexico he buys you've got to work
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have been or that's gonna worth of its mother the
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just gonna face reality for spending money
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on the wrong things
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gas prices a surging and it's
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forcing countries like germany to fire
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up cold again would look at the implications
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of that and the central african
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republic is introducing a new
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digital currency but so
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will be using it
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the people were using it are rich
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well educated
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men
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then they are only using it for relatively
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large value transactions
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more on that a little bit later but
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says i spoke to our top story to
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as a good case government to of the uk
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governments may senior ministers have resigned
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from boris johnson's cabinet plunging
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the government ensue major crisis
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the chances of the exchequer or finance
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minister rishi senate and the how
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secretary sajid javid of both hundred
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in their resignations piling more pressure
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on the prime minister boris johnson
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has been accused of making several
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misleading statements most recently
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about the behavior of a colleague who had drunkenly
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growth fellow members as a private
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club andrew morrison a conservative
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and pay and trade and boy for the
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prime minister is calling on boris
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johnson to resign
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i'm absolutely lot of conservative party
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or want to see it succeeds i don't
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see how it can do under boris johnson
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i probably kept quiet so far too long
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after they've really this
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they broke the camel's back
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this morning hours was lord
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adonis letter to the
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standards commissioner i think really
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that's the end of it for me i've had enough
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i've just i've caught on the prime is to go
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and i hope he doesn't quick
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but there are members of the conservative
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party who was standing by the prime minister
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the minister for breaks it opportunities
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jacob rees mogg that the prime minister could
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write this out
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well i
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organization and you just over two years
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ago explicit
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alterations to your own com
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about campaign is the financial
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times whitehall editor and joins
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is now that it's the best he can you just
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recap on today's events
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for is please
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well the day began with an explosive
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letter from a civil servants
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who buy a few people had of could lose simon
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mcdonald he was head of the foreign office
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at he wrote a letter public letter
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the said that johnson was still not
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telling the truth about the incident
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with chris pinches sir crispin she was deputy
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chief whip in charge of winning party
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votes and party management
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and and the fact was the johnson
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and many people think the past week
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or so that are they were not aware
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of substantive allegations about mister pinches
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task conduct lot we don't vote
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this letter to say that in fact that this
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was not true that he personally inform
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johnson was present these discussions and
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that set of a whole chain of events over
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the day the lead with a cabinet meeting was vital
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i'm lucky and minister sitting
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around the table and ten downing street
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am and really just is growing
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concern among to mp says they
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could not trust johnson anymore
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and that really his time with sort of buying
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out in he was doing an apology on the
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six o'clock evening news as
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that happened to set the how sexy sajid
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javid resigned follow five minutes
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later by and the chancellor
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which he sooner and since then we've seen
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a smattering of junior government
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appointees and ministers also resigning
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and the question now really is and
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com voices and get through this adhesive
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point it's of a placements it's chance
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to and health secretary but this is by
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far the worst stay for boys have seen
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since he became prime minister
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can you explain full or listeners
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just how senior
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these members are at recess and act
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in such a javad who have resigned today just
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enough they are big hitters aren't
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they within the cabinet
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the uk government yeah
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so they chance to obviously is
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the second most powerful person in the uk
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government's the treasury the biggest department
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within the uk state is responsible
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for spending and fiscal management
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decisions management decisions you see knock is
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also very influential figure within
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the take conservative party when people think
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that's a potions and go see is one
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the save with to become the next
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to we passed leader and therefore prime
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minister and will receive why
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praised for his economic policies and also
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his press conferences june the current
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of ice pandemic when he was basically on our
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tv screens sajid javid was
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the how sexy again another long find
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support of voice onset he's charles of
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the national savage the uk am
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of see an public am all the
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all the hospitals and doctors and that sort
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of thing so mr javid was
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bridge that's awful in the resignation that hancock
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who saw the uk to the coat of arms pandemic
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with javid was right bc chance to himself
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actually fell out with people and voice on
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his down a seperate can have very
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experienced figure is be in the cabinet on and
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off for seven years now to
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the fact they've both gone and west told
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it's on coordinates solo the time of
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their resignations looks a little bit suspect
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am that that that he's a big
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blow for the prime minister something within the party
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the prime minister has it within
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the past couple of weeks survived a vote
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of no confidence and
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what's the chances see think of him surviving
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this
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am i would
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say that he says in the on the
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brink at the moment i don't
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think it's it's easy to see a way through
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this to boris johnson because we have
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that confidence vote you mentioned which can see
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me to mean he is safe to the next twelve
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months but i think forty one
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percent of conservative mps voted against
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him in that both if it was a vote how to malo
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i'm sure majority would vote against a
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he would be out burn the tory party
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will see technically can't be challenged a guess
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now i think of more cabinet ministers had resigned
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that i think the cheek would have been up today
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but at the moment no one else seems
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to be quitting from boy sources top team
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so the question now is can the be under the leadership
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folks nothing what will happen is
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that sad that will be meetings of of
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conservative mps to more than they will send she
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looks at a rule change of allow that
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to happen but potions and is a fighter
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he's not gonna go and i think even if you
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know senior party biggest came to him
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said look it's up you need to go see
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would still keep on going but my feeling
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would be is that there will probably be another
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confidence village voice on some the next couple
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of weeks stamina tools you the premise
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the can survive it's but he will want
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to and he will try and keep on fighting
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the bathroom pain from the as t london
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thank you very much so that explanation
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well it's got a response from business now
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john elliot his executive
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chairman of either limited it
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for you case only manufacturer of
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washing machines he's donated
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money to the conservatives in the past
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and voted for boris johnson in the last
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election
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i was hopeful the boss was gonna be good prime minister
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a very often fat and he spells his fail
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to do it i'm afraid
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why do you say that
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well i thought the difference we gonna be that he wasn't
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into detail in the conflict with strategy hardly
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the leader of a business or an organization
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of the top shouldn't be doing detail if
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we look new strategy ronnie raymond a good
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example the little detail but look
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at the site and think what to do long term they
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also be is more important
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the do the right thing and lose the election
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and the wrong thing removal
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the forty points just obsessed by giving
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out money handouts to be no bad news get
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reelected
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how you feel then about rishi select
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resigning
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they well i think is other i think it's
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it's called me to ahead the sooner we sort this
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out the but it's not gonna get better watch
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like a duck quacks like look is a joke we're
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not moving over not take advantage of of economies
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in a mess we're not dealing with
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the prison up to it the strange thing is
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distressing is
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we can't get employees burrow jobs and
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almost a new the
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we can't run economy without people doing useful
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the something wrong out of bars
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in the resignation less risky summit
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wrote to the prime minister
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he talks about them both wanting
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the same things high growth economy
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world class public services and
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but this needs to be delivered in
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a different way and that they need
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to make sacrifices and then and then
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that it's become clear to me
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that are approaches are fundamentally
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different what do you think he means by that
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look he wanted to eat he wanted to
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get the booksellers he wanted to give less
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out in the form of benefits that he
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was forced to an by getting
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that money i mean juice people people don't
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want to work because the
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people don't need to work
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that seems strange religion but the fafsa
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the jobs every way the economy we
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can't kill them so we got good economy people
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are set to work
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how difficult would it be feel business now
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trying to write with this unstable
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governments
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it matter if it's been difficult for two years i've never
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or two years like it's difficult
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what about his name of along with it southern
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trying about even go to make sacrifices going to work
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at the others were going to wasn't smart that
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we just got a face reality we're spending money
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on the wrong things
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the able johnny darned near the only
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one a farm has been several new
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roads are roads regulate the weren't
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that bad we don't need to do those things
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if he wants you to difficult yes you can make sacrifices
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you gotta decide where you go to put your resources and
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it's or investment the thing but
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not spending money
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should receive select have resigned
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bearing in mind been a we are suffering
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from the consequences of the time
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wait what you gotta make sure
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short term sacrifices for long term benefits
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were in the lego movie would rain
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energy prices are going up since
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he have stayed where he was and sides it
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kind of dealt with it from the inside
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said you'd rather just but not to do that i
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pushed out i don't know that i've never met the amount of don't
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know i'm actually but what i've seen him you seem
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to have the right idea but he sought i'm handicapped
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by political correctness gotten
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doing the right thing i think he's got good intentions
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and good ideas
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how do you think he did during the pandemic
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the body live up to the reason
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to well i think a lot of money was wasted
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no doubt about that am and
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we will learn from that the that it was a unique situation
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that never been having before so
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i think no mistakes made by the gop no doubt about
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it something to got right some is he got rough with an
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excuse that that's necessary you
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gotta go from that you're gonna get our economy
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on a balanced this is not joy for the sake
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of it got about as a big gotta make sure that
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we consume
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the same as we actually produce we don't we actually
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consume what we produced rebecca for by
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borrowing but it's not the way to go
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it's the same as how so you
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the bush
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i'm what do you think then boris johnson
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should do that
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the reason i've been you got a good
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chance and he should have especially
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results any one of these things you don't
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i'm not big issues but assume any over
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anything that will be better for the economy
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and your business
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absolutely long term
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that's what we're thinking about the long term
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is more important the short term we get to the shot him
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the goes a long time out
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that was john elliot executive chairman
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of washing machine manufacturer even
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germany may be about abandon
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it's target of reaching net zero
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by twenty thirty five reuters
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news agency is reporting that it's government
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is preparing a law which will allow it to ditch
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the commitment altogether the german
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government and already decided to restart
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disused coal fired power stations
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because of reduced us supplies from russia
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it's quite a bold move for a german government
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which had promised to be the greenest
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one yet or doctor tough
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yeah yeah see mother is a senior research
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fellow at the oxford institute the energy
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studies class research program
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has you thanks for coming on the program will talk
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about net zero in a moment but just
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festival tell us about how serious the situation
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is across europe when it comes to gas
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supplies from russia the
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evening while europe season of a terrorist
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situation because it really is
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what makes a safe passage in terms
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of energy ask you to through into
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it depends on continued up russian
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gas up snows and now europe's
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been worried that on their bits
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of the sometimes with you says or
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not stream pipeline from russia
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into europe and that is expected
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a plant technical our maintenance
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tend to twentieth of july and is and worry
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how much gas us when slow
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to that pipeline of the maintenance
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and it it's ah it's lowest on
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southern drop or eat they stopped completely
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which completely which think it's the most likely scenario
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i europe worries about that than
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europe will be unable
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storage is before winter
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and that really means ah rationing
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are in winter and is it comes to rush
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in and of course it won't be easy for any
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country in europe but for some countries is going
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to be more difficult than for others and germany's
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man of as huntress i whom it
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would be more difficult than
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for artists ,
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are again the issue is a with
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not stream are pipeline one
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of the reasons is that one of the turbines
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that needed for us to operation
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for pump gas deceptively deceptively
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been on on maintenance
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in canada and it's unable to
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come back because of canadian
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sanctions against and dust from and by
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the way the edu or germany they
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don't have sanctions against and
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gazprom said that turbines been caught
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in sanctions and read it also
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depends what enjoyment and canada will
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be able to to sort this issue out
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at for suicide no sign sign
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of that and customs eighty six and it's signal
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want to have that flowing and
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he should make sure that and section
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stayed that least you'll put ice on maintenance
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of our export or pipeline on
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for germany to now be reportedly
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scoffing it's net zero target by twenty
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thirty five the most does not
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suggest that this is going to be a prolonged
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problem for a prolonged time it
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properly i am sort
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of seen as a perception in germany and
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in in the in the european commission it's
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sort of you know it's almost that you can almost feel
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and made a fat panic read and
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and german government commission they
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kind of concentrate on on short term
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easier and namely have to pass
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through the winter in case there will
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be an interruption of our russian
15:44
a docile saw the production of russian gas
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into europe and out which might
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ask them says on that the have this main
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problem in fox you save the company to
15:52
focus on so long term easiest and
15:54
it's inevitable now really bad
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a decent you level i'm not
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trying to search the i target for emissions
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reductions database missed and
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on germany's as if sat on germany's level
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two mutt that's because they they look for all
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sorts of measures to in a to done
16:10
anything that can the band or instead
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of a natural dot says mr
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a cast can to save for winter and and you
16:17
you mean longer hours for coal plants
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is set to say it's inevitably tool but isis
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targets for twenty thirty plus but then
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it's not necessarily a job doesn't
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started yet for twenty fifty which is off
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long long time had i'm just as you very
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briefly if you could this strike
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that had been proposed in norway that's
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now not going ahead says a little glimmer
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of hope that casio while
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you're at it that what's this continues
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i think that he was going to go had i think it's understands
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been a hold of and it's it's one
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of the fastest in every negative
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factor that indicates that
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supply i can become tighter
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and tighter whether it's a week and doubts
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russian gas lng that
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inevitably creates you know it's just is already
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panicked it's just kind of feels it on
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and of course it's reflected in in
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the proceeds of that the a positive factor that
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keeps on going to have sanctuary when i see oh
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yes the martha thank you so much for coming
17:11
on and telling us about that will that will with energy
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or because oil has it's headed for
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is worth trading day noise three months
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prompting services of a recession
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is now down below a hundred dollars
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a barrel i as joe saluzzi
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from some is trading in new jersey
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in the united states was as a fall in price
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is significant
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the i think it is one of it's the biggest drivers
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here for for people watching their
17:36
spending and when people are looking at inflation
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number so oil has been neo
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was flirting at one point when on the sub two hundred and thirty
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hours a barrel and today we're seeing
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a below one hundred like you said so i think
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it's it's certainly very important
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for corporations and and but more importantly
17:52
for the retail almost for the confidence
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level and people will drive by the gas stations in
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the see the numbers go up a really it's
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your call them to shrink their spending
18:01
and so on and and really pare back and i think as
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you start see will come back down you might see consumer
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confidence go back up again
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you see it coming down at the pumps because
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i have to say in the uk we're seeing
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it carrying on
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getting a lot lot more expensive
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yeah yeah it's it's funny how many goes up he goes
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of a lot fast and when it comes to answer a d it
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takes of honor for the price to come down and
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is to go up so we haven't seen yet a
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little bit actually what we've we've seen a top that's for
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sure you know where i think it's bad down maybe
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fifty cents a gallon since since
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the high have been a month ago he
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does take time to come down and i think so the problems
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on a surly the oil but it's also the refinery process
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and how it can get to the system and
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and that's where we have some bottleneck still and
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if they consent of work that are you might see the price canal
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little faster and and it's a matter of transportation
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so it's by a day will come down
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by the gate if oil comes out continues
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condemned to take some time to come down
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why is the price of oil coming down
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i think recession recessionary
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fears are coming back game where people
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are are getting nervous about growth of
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or unaware of i'm an artist and in the
19:04
us for globally reducing growth concerns
19:06
slowdown potential recession fears
19:08
are coming out there and , growth
19:10
would slow the be energy needed is gonna
19:13
be less and and i dig dig so
19:15
volatile but it's a to follow so
19:17
commodity that he will react will than
19:20
most other commodities and named stocks and bonds
19:22
and so on so it's a good else
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so if i'm looking at all i'm saying that coming down
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there quick maybe they are really there is a recession
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coming in at never the market been struggling with
19:30
over the last two months herself
19:33
is to we have herself is inflation fear
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or do we have a greater recession feeder and spray
19:37
now it's aims a recession fears
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taking over as the primary concern
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what's your biggest their inflation
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or recession
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at this point i believe it or not i
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think they're a little muted
19:49
a day inflation i think is temporary
19:52
you are not i'm very best
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we've seen the peak i say at this point an
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older guy to rak u recession we're ready in a recession
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i don't think so in here when the economist
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but they will label it based on the search statistics
20:04
but what we feel are ready as a slow down and
20:06
seat and in in certain corporations
20:08
in earnings reports are coming out study were
20:10
in a recession now it's just a question of how
20:12
deep will it be if it's a mild
20:14
recession it's only a slowdown that's it
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that's okay the stock market can handle it especially
20:19
because those inflation numbers come and dance and
20:21
will be the best case scenario if it's a much
20:23
deeper recession and you going into going
20:25
a real period and in
20:27
used to have inflation going high when you get the
20:29
worst scenario so i think at this point we're in
20:32
the better scenario but i do think we're we're we're
20:34
kind of bottom
20:35
there's also been trade discussions haven't the over
20:37
the last twenty four hours between us and china
20:40
has there been any fall out on the markets
20:43
of from those
20:43
trade talks
20:45
i think possibly the market
20:47
see that as humans as an anti inflationary
20:49
item where if you chino if you do remove the tariffs
20:52
prices will come down goods will be cheaper
20:54
so that's a good thing for
20:56
for inflation fears you know you too
20:58
worried more about rbc
21:01
competition around the world and and the reason
21:03
why the terrorists will put on in the first place was
21:05
a different story but the market exotics
21:07
saw that today as a good thing as
21:10
that if you can get prices down regardless
21:12
of how you do it that will be good at the stock
21:14
market so i think those talks if they continue
21:16
will be treated as a bullish centimeter the
21:18
stock market that we says silly
21:20
says
21:21
now the african central african
21:23
republic is planning to roll out a new
21:25
digital currency it's cold single
21:28
coin and the country's president says it'll
21:30
be the country's currency for the next
21:32
generation the move comes
21:34
only two months after the country adopted
21:36
bitcoin as an official currency i've
21:39
been speaking to professor copia george
21:41
from cape town university about why
21:43
the government is introducing digital currencies
21:46
i think if you look at this from the
21:48
geopolitical perspective this is this
21:50
initial announcement came shortly after
21:53
the swiss payments system down payment
21:55
system that is used for international
21:57
payments between countries and between banks
22:00
different countries where
22:02
, banks were excluded from this with
22:04
payment system making any transfers
22:08
with russian companies quite difficult difficult
22:10
it is take that and then you take into account
22:13
the wagner group for a mercenary group from
22:15
russia as operating heavily and fall on
22:17
time know in the central african republic and
22:20
it's african republic starts to farm about what might
22:22
be behind this other countries like
22:24
i'm el salvador they have
22:26
taken the lead in adopting
22:28
bitcoin as legal ten nationalism
22:31
is illegal means of payment but
22:33
the results in a solid i have been devastating
22:35
the the population is
22:37
necessary against this experiment
22:40
this basically adopted
22:42
by nobody el salvador
22:44
it's much more suited to using
22:46
bitcoin as a payments instruments
22:49
, central african republic where
22:51
you has vast
22:53
majority of the country without internet and
22:55
most of the of the people in the country without
22:58
smartphones both of which are of
23:00
which prerequisite to transact indices
23:02
currency
23:03
i can ask you how widely it will be used
23:06
because i think only about ten percent of
23:08
your four point eight million population
23:10
of glaxo
23:11
the internet
23:12
the will be used only by a tiny fraction
23:15
of the population the research
23:17
that is coming out of el salvador i'm
23:20
is quite see as that the people were using
23:22
his are rich well educated
23:25
the men
23:26
they are only using it for relatively
23:28
large value transaction so
23:31
you can completely forget about buying a cup of
23:33
coffee using bitcoin the transaction
23:35
time for for for this is about
23:38
and minutes so any transaction
23:40
you'd you do it takes ten minutes
23:42
to complete think about telling
23:44
somebody test it's as if you had
23:47
someone kasem and you have to stay on for ten
23:49
minutes just for to set until
23:51
the transaction can be completed this is
23:53
no way to operate the payments system
23:56
and the country and that
23:58
it's doomed to fail yet
24:03
orange he for the next generation says
24:05
he's
24:06
the c got confidence in it
24:08
my fears that's
24:10
a the the president the government
24:13
and the cia are using this as a means
24:15
of extracting the value
24:17
and revenue from investors and from
24:19
the country it has nothing to do
24:21
with building no reliable
24:23
sustainable infrastructure other countries
24:25
like nigeria , have launched
24:27
the central benefits of fancy are going
24:30
through lots of growth pains to
24:32
gets luskin adoption
24:34
and like that africa
24:36
has been looking at this for many years now and
24:38
we're taking a very slow gradual approach
24:41
to make sure that the technologies fit for purpose
24:44
what the cia are has done is to completely
24:47
nonsense the gun and go ahead
24:49
with deciding on a payment system
24:51
that can't be used by ninety
24:54
percent of the population and
24:56
it has no chance of ever been
24:58
widely adopted in the country so i
25:00
think it's all smoke and mirrors i'm
25:03
in a way to to
25:05
tap into whatever his nest in the
25:07
crumbling collapsing private
25:09
crypto markets and channels
25:12
some of that money to the cia
25:13
potentially quite dangerous
25:15
as well i mean if you look at digital
25:18
assets they've dropped by about
25:20
two trillion dollars since the end of last
25:22
year bitcoins down by more
25:24
than a half since the beginning of this year
25:27
we we have seen these ups and downs
25:29
with with crypto as it's over the past
25:31
four five years several times as much
25:34
it's something completely new but it
25:36
exposes the citizens of a pantry to
25:38
huge risk if a transaction takes
25:40
ten minutes to to be concluded
25:42
that the price of your
25:45
of of bitcoin changes during that time
25:48
that means somebody has to pay for that and
25:50
that means all prices will go
25:52
up if you denotes on your
25:55
you know you goods in bitcoin yeah
26:00
it exposes citizens to tremendous
26:02
risk and it's amplified both
26:05
in el salvador as in the cia are
26:07
when as i you have governments that one
26:09
to buy bitcoins suspect that of
26:11
purposes i'm no
26:14
no that engaged and
26:16
risk management would ever whatever
26:19
do something like that because to risk in
26:21
these assets the so
26:24
unprecedented to no other asset
26:26
class not goldsmith risky currencies
26:28
comes even close
26:30
you don't think
26:31
the economic progress
26:34
i think that the way than c a r's
26:36
implementing digital assets is
26:39
no way to build infrastructure for
26:42
the twenty first century because he
26:44
has to start from principles openness
26:46
inclusiveness cincy privacy
26:48
transparency making sure that
26:51
you know there is no financing of terrorism
26:53
using whatever means of payment you're
26:55
introducing the cia are as a non obvious
26:57
and said didn't have a public dialogue on
27:00
this was decreed by an autonomous the
27:03
from the top down with a somewhat
27:05
slashed website and without any
27:07
substance to it
27:09
the professor copia george from cape
27:11
town university ending this edition
27:13
of well business
27:14
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