Bankrupt Birmingham + Could Reproductive Rights Derail Trump?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the financial crisis at Birmingham City Council, which has led to the “largest” budget cut in local authority history + How is IVF impacting the US Presidential Race?
The council is attempting to fill a £300m budget shortfall over the next two years after effectively declaring itself bankrupt in September. Plans to tackle the deficit over the next two years were signed off by the cabinet on Tuesday ahead of being voted on by the full council on 5 March. Adam speaks to BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth and Jane Haynes politics editor at Birmingham Live.
Plus, as Alabama’s supreme court defines frozen embryos as children, many IVF clinics stop their work. To find out more about the reproductive rights debate which is splitting the US Republican party Adam speaks to US special correspondent Katty Kay and chief election & campaign correspondent for CBS News, Robert Costa. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, making her triumphant return to newscast after touring many village halls |
| 0:09.8 | and schools for any questions. |
| 0:11.5 | It's Alex Versailles. hello. Were you listening to PM on |
| 0:15.9 | radio four today? No. Actually no you can't be because we're recording newscast |
| 0:19.6 | what's on, as I reveal our secrets. We were just having a little look at PM's running order and they're |
| 0:25.1 | doing an item about BBC News Push Alerts and they're interviewing the head of the BBC News |
| 0:30.7 | Push Alerts. I heard this trailed last week. I did about what makes a good |
| 0:34.5 | push alert and one is when's one is pointless. Yeah. Which got me thinking, have you ever |
| 0:39.5 | had any interesting push alerts or notifications that have caused you any problems? |
| 0:43.7 | Is this the time to tell you that I turned off the BBC push alerts on my phone? |
| 0:47.9 | That'll be a story on the Express website which I'll then get a push alert. |
| 0:51.0 | Top BBC journalist turns off BBC news push alerts. I have to turn them back on to get it. I just looked at mine, my notifications today and it's another little reminder of how clever companies are at working out what you're |
| 1:06.1 | into because Amazon sent me a push alert saying we thought you'd like these new Jennifer |
| 1:12.0 | Lopez t-shirts and hoodies. |
| 1:14.0 | Ooh. That's because I watched her self-funded movie on Amazon at the weekend. |
| 1:20.0 | I do find that a bit weird actually. Is that what happens then? |
| 1:22.0 | Because sometimes I get |
| 1:23.4 | unsolicited push alerts on my phone from like shopping companies it's almost |
| 1:27.9 | like Amazon Prime video works out what I've been watching and then tries to sell me |
| 1:32.1 | products related to the things that I've been watching and then tries to sell me products related to the things |
| 1:33.4 | that I've been watching. |
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