Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the string of arrests following two suspected terror plots in England

Eight men, including seven Iranians, have been arrested over two suspected terror plots in England.

Five were arrested at various locations around the UK as part of an alleged plot to 'target a specific premises'. 

Meanwhile, three men were arrested in London as part of a investigation led by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the suspects have been held overnight for questioning.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray are UK correspondents with me. Now, Hi, Gevin,
Hi have what do we know about this terrorism plot
that's been foiled.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, it looks like two different plots because the eight
who were arrested are being told that the one group
of five arrested around England, another group of three around London,
two separate police investigations, they're saying. But what we do
know is that seven of the eight arrested are Iranian.
They're still being questioned. They've been held overnight, They've been

(00:30):
questioned by counter terrorism investigators and if it's arrests under
the counter Terrorism Command then they could spend a fortnight
before either being released or charged with something. So the
police have got plenty of time on this. What's been
really interesting though about the arrests, apart from the fact
that they are Iranian, and we do know that just

(00:52):
a couple of years back, the head of MI five
that since twenty twenty two they had responded, the security
services had responded to twenty plots backed by Iran whiched
or presented potentially lethal threats to British citizens, and so
the threat from Iran ever growing, and perhaps this highlights this,

(01:12):
but the very fact these arrests were in daylight. The
very fact that they were done in one case, in
front of lots of people in a big town center
busy with shoppers, shows that obviously they thought time is
of the essence, that they needed to act now to
make the arrests before. Perhaps those plots were enacted, but
we simply don't know yet. We're waiting for more details.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Kevin. Can we say this is it for Harry? They're
not going to let him back into the royal fold
if he carries on like this, are they?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
No? I think it's a really odd way giving an
interview to talk about how disappointed you are that you've
lost a court case, only to then start talking about
how your father, the King, Charles the third, doesn't talk
to you, and how frankly you know the royals he
would forgive them for various misdemeanors in the past, and

(01:58):
is said that the whole security issue that he's been
trying to overturn, which is a downturn in his security
level when he comes back to the UK, he said,
describes that as a security sort of stitch up, an
establishment stitch up. So no, this is not the way
to endear yourself to the rest of your family, and

(02:19):
at times he does seem I don't know, slightly desperate
in the interview and certainly very sad either way. I mean,
we're all used to family disputes, but playing it out
in front of the world's media, let alone the world's people,
is certainly not the best way of going, and we
are not therefore expecting him at the V Day commemorations
taking part today and across this week.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I mean, the thing is a lot of people are
listening that particular line where he said, I don't know
how much longer my father has live. People are taking
as some sort of an insight into the king's diagnosis.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Should we I think it's very interesting because all the time,
whenever I get in touch with any of the media
press offices, they're always say, oh, no, the treatment's going
really well. We're really pleased, he's responding terribly well, doctors
are happy with him, etc. So the fact that his
own son is saying I don't know how much longer
he's got is a very odd turn of phrase to

(03:11):
use if what we're hearing about the doctors is correct.
So it does make you doubt that. But At the
same time, do you know what, I'm not entirely sure
how much Prince Harry knows about his father's health. Evidently,
if they're not talking and there are very few members
of the role family probably left talking to Prince Harry,
probably with the exception of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince

(03:32):
Andrew's children, then I'm not quite sure how much detail
he would know about it. But either way, it does
perhaps make you think, oh, actually, perhaps this treatment isn't
going the way we thought.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, totally, Hey, Gavin, thank you very much. Gevin Gray
are UK corresponding? Do you know I thought about that?
I thought, well, how much do you actually know? But
then think about your family. I don't know about you,
but literally all of us children know this that if
we tell my mum anything and then tell her not
to tell the other one, she will tell the other one.
That's how we can sometimes get messages to each other

(04:02):
if we can't be bothered phone each other. I'm just
come back and don't tell Ian this, but blah blah blah,
And then next minute Ian calls me. I'm like, oh,
yeah she did today, she told you. He's like, yeah,
she did. So I just feel like in the Royal family,
if King Charles is to if the diagnosis is terminal,
They're going to be talking about it, aren't they and
be like, don't tell anybody. But then somebody will have
told Beatrice and eugeney and then be interesting, Eugene will

(04:24):
tell Haz because they're still talking to him, so he
will know. He will know more than than they think
he knows maybe, but God only knows why he said
that anyways, because he's dumb. This is the thing. It's
a harsh truth. Some people are hot, some people are not.
Some people are clever, some people are dumb. And it
just is the way the cookie crumbles.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
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