Enda Brady: UK correspondent on whether the UK is at risk at war with Russia

Over in the UK, Chief of defence staff Sir Richard Knighton says war with Russia is at risk.

Knighton says Russia is a growing threat to the UK, and the 'sons and daughters of Britain' will need to be prepared.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says people across Europe are starting to get worried.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan Bridge bit show to the UK in the Brady
a UK correspondent. Well, that's in the good evening. Good
morning to.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You, Hello Ryan, Hello, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now we've got more talk of getting really for preparing
for watch out for war with Russia.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, this is very very concerning. This is the head
of the UK Armed Forces, so he's the top military
commander in Britain, Sir Richard Knighton. He's given a speech
in London at a defense institute think tank and basically
saying war with Russia is coming. People are going to
have to make sacrifices, sons, daughters, families get ready for

(00:37):
war with Russia. So they're spelling it out. And this
is happening on an almost weekly basis. Now we're seeing
everyone in Europe kind of ramping up. Germany's bringing it
back in a form of national service and spending an
awful lot of money on defense foreas previously they didn't.
Poland I was there earlier this year. I interviewed their
Defense Procurement minister and I said to him, do you

(00:59):
think you'll hit five percent spend on GDP for defense
this year? And he said, if we need six percent
we'll do it. If we need seven percent, we'll do it.
Shall I keep going? That was what he said to me.
So Europe is ramping up, and I think everyone is
looking east, looking at what Putin is doing in Ukraine,
and certainly Sir Richard knighton head of the UK Armed Forces,
spelling out that the UK needs to get ready for

(01:21):
a war with Russia in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know the analogy when you're slowly bawling in the pot.
I mean, we get another one of these warnings every week,
but I don't know. Maybe it's because we're on the
other side of the world, but they don't feel it
doesn't feel feel like people are really panicking or anything
like that. What is the feeling like where you are?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think nobody's panicking because look the job we do.
We ask questions of people. We interview politicians and defense
people and ministers and experts. I'm talking to people. My
TV show Roundtable is a current affairs show with Europe
as the theme, and every single week I'm talking to
people on the show and they're all worried. I mean,

(02:02):
we've traveled this year. We've been in Germany with the show.
We've been to Poland warsaw as I said, and people
in Europe are very very concerned. However, if you walk
down the streets of England, Scotland, Wales right now, people
are worried about paying their mortgages, getting to Christmas with
the paycheck, and getting to January. Nobody has this as
a priority. I think what we're seeing is that the

(02:25):
armed force is basically wrapping the knuckles of government and saying, look,
we need more money.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah. Now, tell us about Cliff Richard. Had this trip
to New Zealand could have saved his life.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, just an amazing story. So apparently, Sir Cliff was
due to travel to New Zealand last year and his
promoter said, look, you're going to need travel insurance and
we just need to get you a medical check to
get the travel insurance. And it was at that point
he went for the medical check and he was scanned
and tested and they found prostate cancer and he immediately
underwent treatment. He's eighty five years old.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
He has given an interview to a friend of mine
and former colleague at skuy Dermot Mernahan, who has stage
four prostate cancer, and they had a wonderful conversation about
prostate cancer and the need for men to go and
get themselves checked, and Sir Cliff just letting it be
known that a trip to New Zealand has pretty much
saved his life.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Finally, a rundown farm building at Sandringham is amac for Andrew.
Is this true?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
So the Palace won't comment on individual private living arrangements
of individual private citizens, so basically pointing out that he
ain't no longer a prince. However, the local media have
noticed that the no fly zone over Sandringham has been
extended to a place called Marsh Farm, which is seven
miles west of the main house where the King will

(03:46):
spend Christmas. So why would they be extending a no
fly zone over a random property in the middle of nowhere.
Apparently it's very run down, it's going to need a
lot of work to make it habitable. But the local
rumor mill is in overdrive that in twenty twenty six
that's where Andrew mount Batten Windsor will be moving to.
So let's wait and see. I mean, I can't put

(04:09):
into wards how rural Sandringham is. Honestly, Ryan, I just
can't see Andrew staying there. He likes shiny things. He
likes bright lights and the fast life and the good
life and rural Sandringham. I don't think it's for him.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I saw a story in the Daily Mail, and you know,
I don't know if it's true or not. It was
about Fergie potentially having to live in an old cowshed
on Beatrice as one of Beats farms. Is that true?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, there is that property. I've seen exactly that same
story as well. Everyone was talking about it. The thing
is neither of them have paid any rent or mortgages
anywhere in their entire adult lives. So where they live,
I think when you see what most people are struggling
with rising energy, across inflation, food builds, Christmas, there's not

(04:57):
a great deal of sympathy out there for these two.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is not. Thank you so much for the end of
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