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Ukranian Refugees on Their Way to Spain | BayRadio's Kal Sutherland on the journey back from Poland
Oct 29, 2024
BayRadio's afternoon presenter Kal Sutherland is with the latest convoy delivering emergency supplies to the Ukranian border in Poland.
They are then bringing back over 20 refugees to safe accommodation on the Costa Blanca, as well as other aid and assistance all organised by the Vall de Pop Ukrania appeal as part of the new 'Hope4U charity'.
Kal caught up with Moody live on the return leg, after a minor detour but well on their way back to Spain.
The organisers would like to thank everyone that has volunteered so far and to remind you that you can still help with anything from housing to a cash donation through www.valldepopukrania.com or on our website www.bayradio.fm/donate
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and now for our new feature where is cal
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today uh he's on the road somewhere i
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was talking about in a moment ago
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pointing you towards the photos on our
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facebook page and the like i thought
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well why am i doing this you might as
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well just get him on the line good
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morning good morning mate how are you
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well i'm doing fine here i've got i've
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had the easy bits just sitting here
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talking about things some people are out
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there doing it and you amongst them
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what's going on
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well we're we're driving much much
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further away from that border between
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ukraine and poland so
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we left uh krakow this morning uh
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there's a few reports in the can which
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you'll be able to play out a little bit
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later on bay radio explaining what was
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happening as we left the town square in
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krakow so our nine vehicles are back on
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route to spain replete with refugees and
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it's uh the experience just keeps on
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notching up another level um i've just
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driven the first stint um with i was
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listening to bay through the the
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speakers on the in the car
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and we had jason's phone on the sat nav
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uh and i thought wasn't hearing anything
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so i thought great keep going straight
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we're on the right road anyway
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then we realized that he's that lost
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signal and wasn't telling me anything so
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we're slightly uh on a different route
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than the rest of the convoy um but we
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are in touch with them we know where
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they are they know roughly where we are
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and we'll catch up with them a little
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bit further down the road it's a bit of
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a trial but i think we might catch up
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with him in nuremberg okay which country
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are you in do you even know that much
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yeah we yeah i can tell you exactly we
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know where we are now but it's just that
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the signal keeps dropping in and out
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which doesn't help with the sat lab so
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we are equidistant between berlin and
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uh prague so we haven't gone the wrong
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way we're pretty much actually gone a
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different way you can either go uh below
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and through the czech republic or you
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can go above uh and not go through uh
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the czech republic so we're slightly
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above
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and heading uh down across into germany
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and we'll catch up with the rest of the
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convoy a little bit later on down the
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road um we haven't got a pin yet for
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exactly where and when well we know
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where we're going we know where we're
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heading and we're in touch on the group
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app and uh yeah a a very a very uh
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different experience for us than coming
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up because of course
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it was just us with all of the
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humanitarian aid uh this time around we
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we're actually uh bringing people with
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us and uh
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you might have just heard them
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out there saying gps signal lost it
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keeps happening but we're right yeah so
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it's a very different experience for us
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heading back uh because you know we have
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people with us who are very vulnerable
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they're very worried they're scared
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and um you know we haven't helped the
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situation with our passengers uh just
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now uh or with a young lady and her mum
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was a little bit worried because we were
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somewhat off course but with all the
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communications that we have going on
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and a little bit of uh uh
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understanding between ukrainian and
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english and we know that they understand
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where we are they know that we're in
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touch with the team and have seen the
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fact that team leader rich has replied
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to us saying okay can't check with you
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further down the road and and they're
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okay they're you know it's obviously a
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great deal of relief after everything
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they've been through in the last few
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days to get to the board and manage to
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get through and be allowed to come down
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to spain so you know this is just the
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first part of the second part of their
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journey and um
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it's yeah it's a
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it's quite emotional well yes i was
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going to ask you that i mean you set off
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on friday um i think some of you had uh
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moved the clocks already and got uh got
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there an hour early but that's all right
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uh it didn't matter too much in the
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grand scheme of things um taking
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supplies over
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as you said as you said and um i mean
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was it when you when you got you know
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pretty much close to where you were
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headed was it what you were expecting
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we i think we're losing you a little bit
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it's like we did on the way up i have
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other things
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in kosovo macedonia
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yeah um so yes a lot of similarities in
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that respect for myself not everybody's
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had
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same experiences so um it's quite it's
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quite a knockout you know
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and you know what what you see on the
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news with people escaping a war and when
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you actually experience it real uh face
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to face it's it's very different it
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brings it's so much more closer to home
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and it was an experience that i wanted
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to live through again but if i can say
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i'm glad about anything it is that you
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know
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up here with us on this trip
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are doing it for the right reason which
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is to help these people escape the war
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zone and get them to a place of relative
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safety uh you know where they can settle
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themselves down again after what they've
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been through you know that five weeks
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ago they were living in
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normality in their own country and now
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that has all completely changed
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um i think you mentioned two two people
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with you in the vehicle there how many
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in total coming back on this trip with
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yourselves
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uh yeah i think it's 21 or 22 um we
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don't have the same people that we
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thought we were going to have with us in
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the first place there are a number of
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the reasons behind that one family have
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coveted so we can't bring them with us
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this time they're safe they're in a
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hotel they will get picked up on the
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next run uh for and then we had people
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arriving um from all the way through the
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night i think the last train came in at
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about three o'clock in the morning um i
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we have no idea how our team leader rich
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stays awake because we think we're tired
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uh i haven't had much sleep and we've
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been busy well you know he's he's just
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doing ten times more than the rest of us
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but uh yeah so he was up with the with
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the team in krakow coordinating that um
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and so we have actually come back now
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with all of the cars with occupants and
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uh yeah getting people out and getting
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people to safety
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i mean we spoke to him because he did
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the first one
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last week i think it was that on the
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friday or thursday or friday we spoke to
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him and he said i mean it's still quite
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early days for you know the border area
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and for everything to be organized and
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in place did it was it
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remotely chaotic or have they got things
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you know fairly well organized there
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yes i mean at the border itself somewhat
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chaotic still but they are now setting
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up areas just slightly
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away from the border and where they can
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process people properly
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i went to one of those yesterday
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and there were a number of refugees
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there once that paperwork's completed
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you know they will move further into
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poland there are three reception centers
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in poland uh from there people can then
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be moved on to uh different countries
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around europe but you know there is an
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awful trafficking uh situation
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where people have been
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lost already um rich has detailed that
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on
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some of the reports we've done yesterday
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and today so it's important that all
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right paperwork is completed you can't
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just pick people up from the border and
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take them you know otherwise you know
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anything can happen and sadly some
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people have been lost already so all
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that paperwork has to be completed in
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the right way in the proper manner there
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are checks as well of course once you
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start to leave those border areas
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through poland through the czech
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republic and further into europe there
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are checks all the way and uh
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we have to have the right paperwork and
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the people that are being
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let out of ukraine also have to have the
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right paperwork
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right so they just can't wander out and
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that's it that wait to be picked up
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right
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absolutely not and we had a situation
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yesterday whilst we were driving to the
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border
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where we had somebody ringing us from
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ukraine asking us to get a 13 year old
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girl out as it turned out she is
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way too far south and way too far into
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what is now russian controlled territory
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for us to do something about immediately
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but
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we have uh we had alexander with us who
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spoke to that lady
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they've had an idea about how they might
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be able to help and so that's ongoing
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last night when we were turning in that
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was still going on we'll obviously
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update where and when we can about how
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that's happening uh but uh there are
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ways to try and get people to the right
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area so that we can get them out so you
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know that's just a live situation which
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continues but it just highlights the
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fact that you know a number of the team
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was saying well why didn't they get her
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out before well of course this is you
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know where she is is is quite near to
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mariopol and there's been no way for
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people to get out of some of those areas
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in the past couple of weeks because you
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know despite the fact that they've said
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that there are ways out or there were
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safe routes they haven't been safe at
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all and that there aren't any safe
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routes out of that part certainly
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anymore no that's actually a good
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opportunity to give a shout to your
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interpreters and people helping out too
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some of them you know it's quite a
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dangerous thing for them to do and
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they're putting themselves at risk and
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putting themselves out there but they're
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doing a great job absolutely that team
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we saw yesterday that we delivered the
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humanitarian a2 was so grateful and so
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thankful you'll see the pictures of team
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leader richie receiving certificate
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thanking everybody who's donated and
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everybody who's supplied the things that
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we brought up and uh and then and you
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know they were so so friendly and so
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grateful it's just the people on the
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these are the polish people who say look
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these are our neighbors these are these
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these you know we we live we live in
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peace with them and this is what's
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happening to you that we can do we have
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to help and uh that came across
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certainly yes
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and they were very very keen to show us
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what's happening
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what happens with the aid
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and show us why
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they're doing the job and
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hence just going down to the border and
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going to the refugee center there where
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people literally just come through
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it's quite a harrowing experience of
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course we didn't take any photos or any
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film of that uh particular center
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there's a few uh pictures of cam beds
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and things but we weren't taking
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pictures of of the women and children
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who are in that center waiting to be
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allowed out no sure okay well well done
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to you and well and everyone involved
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and thanks for the uh the reports and
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all the photos that you could take and
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send back to us they're up on our
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facebook page as i said bay radio in
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spain we'll get some little video bits
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put together with the audio as well more
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to come and i don't say they'll catch up
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with you during the day roger in for you
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later on this afternoon of course as you
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make your way back he is
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yeah and um we're yeah like i said
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jason's driving now i'm around we're
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around you can message us give us a
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shout whenever throughout the day and
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we'll uh we'll update you and uh yeah
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next stop i've got a few more cars to
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catch up with because we were doing a
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meet the drive as a meet the meet the
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teams feature and uh i haven't quite got
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all nine yet we're a few adrift and i'll
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catch up with those other guys and get
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them at the next stop
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okay and yeah andy's cars all right is
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it i mean
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one of our bosses is out there and
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they're leading the line there either
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peter perfect he was in the wacky races
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cue they're out in front but um yes
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another one they've very kindly lent you
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their gleaming new motor and you decided
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to take it into uh almost into the war
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zone there he was a little on edge but
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i'm sure
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he's fine now he was a little on edge
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actually he was a little on edge about
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it so so we found a picture on the
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internet and sent him a picture of this
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of a similar car with it
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that had been in an accident however of
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course it wasn't that one and
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everything's safe um yeah and so captain
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mannering as he's named him danny the
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other owner um he's
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in his land rover defender and uh yeah
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actually managed to get him to speak i
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mean he never speaks on the radio but
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you'll see on one of those reports that
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i sent in early this morning um he's
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actually he he does he does speak on
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that one we'll hear that a little bit
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later on bay radio and yeah for the
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other boss andy who's back at base uh
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we're in your um c3 no q3 and it's all
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fine okay well we're getting danny on
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just say something these are exceptional
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circumstances and there goes your proof
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