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RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

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  • #4952
    FrancieBrady
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553013#Comment_123553013

    Neither are many other 'current affairs'.

    Again, you need to subscribe to a podcast that limits itself to subject matter you are interested in.

    A radio station is never going to satisfy that demand you are making of it.



  • #4953
    dxhound2005
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123552274#Comment_123552274

    She said that Saddam was the dictator of Iraq. Then she quoted what the Israeli Defence Minister said to warn the Ayatollah. The statement is on YouTube in Hebrew. The Reuters translation into English of the relevant part of it is below, perhaps that is where the mistake happened. To be clear it should say "a neighbouring" instead of "the neighbouring", but I can see what was meant.

    "Israeli defence minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could face a similar fate to Iraq's Saddam Hussein. “Remember what happened to the dictator in the neighbouring country of Iran who took this path against Israel,” news Reuters quoted Israel Katz as saying."



  • #4954
    FrancieBrady
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553403#Comment_123553403

    Remember what happened to the dictator in the neighbouring country of Iran who took this path against Israel,” 

    Change the of to a 'to' and it makes perfect sense.

    A typo most likely as you say.



  • #4955
    dxhound2005
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    Here is a video with English subtitles, which I did not see earlier. It says, "in the country neighbouring Iran", but it would need a Hebrew speaker to confirm that. Another rendering into English that I saw says "the country next door". I would not blame Claire, or accuse her of mixing up Iran and Iraq.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJevrylNQwc


  • #4956
    Brendan Bendar
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    Checking the Popcorn levels in the press over the cooker………..



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  • #4957
    hotmail.com
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553403#Comment_123553403

    So a lot of her questions are just lines off Reuters. Doesn't surprise me.



  • #4958
    Arghus
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    "A billion is a really big number" says Maths boffin guest.



  • #4959
    dxhound2005
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    To put it in layman's terms. A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 32,000 years. All rounded.



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