now, i'm joined here in the studio by andrew bruce, former head of planning and performance at hs2 , n andrew, you were there from 2015 to 2016. yes, in a senior position. and as i understand it, from what i've read and what i've seen, you were specifically involved with the part of the project that was repossessing houses up and down the line . correct. so just tell the line. correct. so just tell us your story, what you saw. >> okay . when i got to hs2, my >> okay. when i got to hs2, my job description was to buy all the land within a budget of £2.8 billion. right. so that was very specific. >> and you had experience in doing this in previous jobs before? >> i had, yes. i'm a chartered civil engineer. i've done a lot of properties . of properties. >> so you've got 2.8 billion to spend. yes buying up properties up and down the line. yes >> and i was given three key tasks. the first, i had to identify how many properties there was 11,420 of them. it was very clear i had to know when we were going to buy those properties. also very clear because construction told me exactly when they w

now, i'm joined here in the studio by andrew bruce, former head of planning and performance at hs2 , n andrew, you were there from 2015 to 2016. yes, in a senior position. and as i understand it, from what i've read and what i've seen, you were specifically involved with the part of the project that was repossessing houses up and down the line . correct. so just tell the line. correct. so just tell us your story, what you saw. >> okay . when i got to hs2, my >> okay. when i got to hs2, my job description was to buy all the land within a budget of £2.8 billion. right. so that was very specific. >> and you had experience in doing this in previous jobs before? >> i had, yes. i'm a chartered civil engineer. i've done a lot of properties . of properties. >> so you've got 2.8 billion to spend. yes buying up properties up and down the line. yes >> and i was given three key tasks. the first, i had to identify how many properties there was 11,420 of them. it was very clear i had to know when we were going to buy those properties. also very clear because construction told me exactly when they w

interesting letter from his wife who who wrote to the commander of the 77 different division, general andrew bruce, who was a remarkable figure in his own right, you know, and of course, was just devastated like the rest of his division at pyle's death. yeah, amazing guy, i think represented one aspect. thank you for coming back. oh, pleasure. to follow up on the question, when you get formosa, nimitz, in fact, about the possibility of bypassing the philippines and in fact, we've done a couple we've done of all of the things that i've seen because again, like you said, not focused. and it doesn't give armor made into the making of anything. yeah. so i mean, this is always the dilemma, the whole pacific war. do we really to invade this place or not? i often that, you know, if they had tried to invade every japanese controlled island or whatever, we'd still be out there, you know. so you had to pick and choose and they do, you know, decent job of that throughout the war on the island hopping campaign and whatnot. what is valuable about the philippines, though i do think, is that once you're there yo

a lot of my friends say yeah i can imagine that because andrew bruce is a technical idiot.ndrew asked me how to post a picture i did on his social media. i did, and i posted it in a gigantic form because i don't know how you edit them. >> know. it was of emily >> i don't know. it was of emily carper was a very nice carper and it was a very nice picture, a big picture of my face, also very pixelated. >> so put a nice picture of nigel farage on social media to suggest might be going suggest that he might be going in the jungle. >> vote for you, nigel, if >> i'll vote for you, nigel, if you go in. yeah i'd vote for nigel. >> it in. keep him in. >> keep it in. keep him in. >> keep it in. keep him in. >> jungle. >> in the jungle. >> in the jungle. >> in the jungle. >> i think it would be a, i think good banter if matt hancock got to third place in the jungle. >> nigel will win. >> nigel will win. >> still >> all right, well, still to come. >> you're listening. nigel, come on and tell us. are you going to do is he going to do it? is he >> is he going to do it? is he going to do i

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bruce devlin. we are back tomorrow pm. with back tomorrow at 11 pm. with andrew doyle daniels and andrew doyle victornd if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. have a great weekend today, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, has vowed to take revenge against hamas . rishi sunak says the uk hamas. rishi sunak says the uk government stands in full solidarity with israel against, in quotes, the cowardly and depraved attacks from the palestine militant group and elsewhere. >> the labour conference kicks off today in liverpool. gb news will be there, bringing you every twist and turn from sir keir starmer's final conference before general election next before the general election next year. before the general election next year . yes i'm here in liverpool year. yes i'm here in liverpool in what could be the last conference before the election . conference before the election. >> will sir keir starmer be prime minister in just a year from now ? from now? >> and national curry week ends today . did you even

bruce, our thanks to you. let's turn to the latest on strikes across this country. talks have been suspended in the actors strike. plus there was a surprise move from thousands of autoworkers overnight. andrew dymburt is tracking it. good morning, andrew. >> reporter: good morning, linsey. thousands of autoworkers walked off the job at one of ford's most profitable truck plants. it's a major escalation in the autoworkers strike against big three automakers. it is part of the auto union and big three car makers. this plant makes trucks an suv's and employs around 8,700uaw members. the walkout catching ford by surprise. it is ford's largest and brings in about $25 billion in revenue a year. the union cites lack of progress in contract talks as a reason for the latest walkout. ford says the decision by uaw to strike at its kentucky truck plant without warning is, quote, grossly irresponsible. uaw has been on strike against ford, stellantis and gm for about a month now. linsey? >> andrew, what can you tell us about the latest, as far as negotiations between actors and studios? >> reporter: those talks are said to have completely broken down. both sides remain far apart, that being studio and th