Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the oil tanker and cargo ship that collided off Yorkshire coast

One person is in hospital, and 36 others are safe and accounted for, after a cargo vessel collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea.

The vessels promptly burst into flames, sending thick dark smoke into the air.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says investigations into the incident are ongoing - and there's concerns it could have long-running implications. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady's a UK correspondent in the good evening
to you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, Ryan, great to speak to again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
What's happening with these two ships that collided? This is
off the coast of Yorkshire and carrying some pretty highly
toxic stuff. What's happening with them?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
So investigation underway. We don't know what happened or who's
to blame, basically, but what we do know is what
they were carrying. So the American oil tanker, it turns out,
was carrying jet fuel kerosene two hundred and twenty thousand barrels,
all of which will now be leaking into the North
Sea off the Yorkshire coast. And this container ship, which

(00:33):
was traveling under the Portuguese flag, we're told that was
carrying sodium cyanide. So all of this toxic chemicals and
aviation fuel leaking into the North Sea. This is a
hugely important fishing area and it's also the season now
coming up where wildlife and birds mate, and that Yorkshire
coast area could be devastated. We're told forty two percent

(00:57):
of all fish consumed in the UK are brought ashore
along that stretch, and that's what happened ten miles off
the coast yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's not great is that now there's some in pay.
We're spoken about him before, convicted for punching one of
his constituents. He's now quit. This is a problem for Starma.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
So there's going to be a by election and this
will be the first by election since Starmar's victory in
July of last year. Domestically he's had a rocky ride.
He's made some tough decisions the budget, for example, a
lot of people feel that's kind of punishing business. And
now the people of Runcorn Up in Cheshire in the
northwest will get the chance to replace Mike Ainsbury. So

(01:39):
he was the guy who was filmed on CCTV punching
a constituent in the head in the early hours of
the morning last year. Heated discussion having had a night
out and a man approached him to talk about roadworks
in the area and it ended with a conviction for assault.
So Ainsbury has now sut down. There will be a
by election and I think the problem for Starmar is,

(02:00):
you know, traditionally governments get a bloody nose in by
elections and Nigel Faraj's Reform Party if we believe the
polls are very very popular right now twenty one percent
nationwide so farag will be zoning in on runcorn. His
party came second there last year at the actual election.
That this is the first kind of domestic bloody nose
for Starmar.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, now, mobile phone has been stolen in London last year?
How many.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Seventy thousand, one hundred plus that was? That was the
number last year. All adds up to somewhere in the
region of about one hundred and forty million dollars of
a criminal enterprise. People's hands as you're walking along the street.
Guys operating in pairs on e bikes and e scooters
and they just zip along, and people are coming out

(02:48):
of their offices for their lunch break, Tourists are going
on Google Maps trying to find where they're going. And
you've got two and a half thousand dollars of an
electrical item in your hand, and people are thinking that
you know they're safe. And these gangs are absolutely ruthless.
The phones are gone within seconds and within days they're
underway to Nigeria or China where they are wiped and

(03:10):
resold or stripped down for parts. It's shocking, and I
would say the number from personal experience. I've never had
my phone. A lot of the people I work with
have and they didn't report it to the police because
they just thought, what's the point, They'll never catch them.
And I mean in terms of policing, we've seen an
operation last month two hundred and thirty people arrested in

(03:30):
one week. Some police are cracking down stammers, bringing in
a law now where they don't need a search warrant
to go into a house where people believe them. All
the phone is because a lot of people are using
find my Phone and they're going to the police and saying, look,
it's at number one Smith's Street, I can see it,
and they're being told, well, we don't have a warrant
to set that address. So a lot of the policing

(03:53):
needs to tighten up really big time.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Goodness mat Hey, the you know chi I was riding
today about some pretty seem like pretty significant in a
chase cutstead coming. This is from a Labor Health secretary,
so you know CHS England will lose half its staff.
This is from thirteen thousand down to six and a
half thousand entired teams being exed saving money, avoiding duiplication.
I'm assuming this is beck office stuff. This is policy stuff,

(04:17):
not frontline middle management.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's absolutely not nurses and doctors and pediatricians and cancer specialists.
This is middle management. And I think what we're seeing
is the labor government getting their feet under the table
looking at the books, and they're realizing where all the
money goes, and Streeting has no choice. I mean, the
NHS is on its knees. I heard someone tell me

(04:40):
a story the other day how they'd in Germany they'd
gone to A and E and they'd waited four hours
to be seen, and I was like, I was actually
in Berlin for the election coverage, and I was like, well,
four hours is pretty good going in England, but in
Germany they were absolutely horrified. They were telling all their
friends that they'd been to the A and E room
and it took four hours to see a doctor. Streeting realizes,

(05:03):
I think he's got long term ambitions to be prime minister.
By the way, this guy very very ambitious. He realizes
that the NHS is broken, and they're looking for where
the money is going, and it's going on policymakers and
middle management.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Sounds a bit like someone down here called who's our
health minister? Whose name has just escaped me brown round.
It sounds a very similar situation to your Ways streeting
into thank you for their inde Brady are UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
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