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Hello, you are listening to Cheeksheet, the podcast that gets you up to speed with everything

that's happening in just 10 minutes. I'm Sophie.

And I'm Wilf. It's Thursday the 20th of November. Here's what's happening. So the UK is exploring

military options. If a Russian spy ship sells any closer to British shores, we're going to explain

what's happened in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the US and Russia could be secretly forming a plan

to end the war in Ukraine. And it is a nightmare, to be honest, for novelists. Nearly half of

authors in the UK think they're going to be replaced by AI. Right, let's talk about the Russian ship off the coast of Scotland. The Foreign Secretary of

Cooper says the government's deployed a Royal Navy warship and also RIF planes to keep an eye on what it's up to.

It was spotted yesterday. What they suspect it of doing is gathering intelligence to try and map Britain's undersea cables. The ship

known as the Antar is just off the north coast of Scotland at the minute and it was also seen

pointing lasers at pilots of RAF aircraft. Let's listen to what the Defence Secretary had to say.

He said the UK is exploring military options

if it gets any closer to British shores. And he did a press conference yesterday as the news broke

and addressed the Kremlin directly. My message to Russia and to Putin is this. We see you. We know

what you're doing. And if the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready.

We are ready.

It's pretty serious stuff. It's just on the edge of our territorial waters, but is in our economic waters.

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