Summary
Government tells everyone to get their Covid jabs…
The Health Secretary says coronavirus is still a threat, but he’s lined up a new antiviral drug that could help speed up recovery time. Fergus talks us through what’s going on…
What went wrong in Afghanistan? Former Ambassador to the US and national security advisor, Sir Kim Darroch, explains what happened at today’s committee looking at how we left the country in the summer.
And the director of the BBC documentary “Four Hours in the Capitol” explains how he tracked down the people who stormed the US government buildings back in January.
It’s a busy one… And we’ve got Chris Mason in the hot seat!
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj, with Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. Emma Crowe is the studio director. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to introduce you to Faddo. |
| 0:08.2 | Faddo is a cat. |
| 0:10.8 | And Faddo has had a little issue getting some of her vaccinations. |
| 0:16.0 | And we've found out about this courtesy of the newscast inbox, |
| 0:20.0 | because we love having a conversation with you and where we can trying to solve some of your problems |
| 0:24.4 | or at least understand how they might have come about. And Fado's owner is Jesse and she's sent us this voice note. |
| 0:30.8 | Over the past year it has been incredibly difficult to get that |
| 0:34.8 | appointments for Fado. In the summer in July just now his annual health check and |
| 0:40.3 | vaccination was due but our local surgery told us that they could not really get the vet in their |
| 0:46.7 | surgery over the summer and Fadu will just have to wait until October. my question is, why is it so hard to get Vado is any |
| 0:57.3 | vaccination and should I be worried about his health? Thank you team for looking into this. Keep up with a great |
| 1:04.2 | work and Chris I'm a big fan of your outro. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh Jesse I'm blushing and I'm blushing twice over because I have thought that Fado was a girl and I heard there that he's a he and I hope |
| 1:16.2 | Fado continues to oo's stamina vaccines or not. |
| 1:20.2 | Let's try to unpick this whole business then of Is this supply chain problems as far as vets are concerned? |
| 1:26.0 | Who knows? Let's talk to a man who does know. |
| 1:28.0 | Dr Bolo, who is a vet, not just any vet, a tick-tocking vet, |
| 1:32.0 | a vet on pooch perfect the TV show doctorate in |
| 1:34.7 | veterinary medicine hi how you doing hi Chris I'm great how are you doing I'm all right |
| 1:39.3 | thanks for coming on newscast now help fado out help our newscasters out. What's going on here? Is there a broader problem? |
| 1:46.1 | Or is this more than just Fado? |
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