Summary
The US President wraps up his trip to Europe, but is he taking the lead on Ukraine?
The BBC’s North America editor, Sarah Smith, who has been travelling with the US Commander-in-Chief on Air Force One, and Europe Editor, Katya Adler, drop by to chew over the transatlantic approach to the crisis.
Also… amid a growing feeling of global instability, Adam speaks to historian, philosopher, and best-selling author of 'Sapiens', Yuval Noah Harari, about the consequences – some unintended and overlooked – of the conflict in Ukraine.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Chris Flynn and Ben Cooper. The studio director was Hannah Montgomery. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Well, we haven't heard from North Korea while the world's been getting more and more stressful. |
| 0:10.1 | But we have now, because they've tested a new powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile, |
| 0:15.2 | which they're calling the Huasong 17, which was first unveiled in 2020 at parade. |
| 0:22.9 | But now they've actually test fired it. |
| 0:28.1 | And it was accompanied by a very glossy propaganda video where the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un basically has gone a bit top gun. |
| 0:35.9 | He's wearing these aviator shades and a leather jacket as he oversees the launch. |
| 0:40.6 | And with the world seeming like an increasingly dangerous place, we will hear from one of the world's kind of most popular thinkers about what it all means. |
| 0:59.5 | That'll be later on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:02.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:04.2 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:08.5 | Now if that is the argument argument then we are going into unprecedented |
| 1:12.2 | territory. Combined with contact tasting, contact tasting, tracing. Yes, yes, yes. I'm a vegan, |
| 1:21.1 | so of course I don't like meatballs. Next slide, please. Blair, Blair, Blair. Lose, lose, lose. Hello, it's Adam in the cupboard, probably |
| 1:30.4 | for the last time, at least in this wave of COVID, because I am now COVID-free and have been for two |
| 1:36.0 | days, which means I can go back to the normal newscast studio from Monday. It will be good to be back. |
| 1:42.1 | But it's also good at the end of a quite trying week |
| 1:44.9 | to catch up with some proper old friends. It's really nice to be able to say, please welcome back. |
| 1:50.6 | Dr. Katja Adler. Hello. |
| 1:52.3 | Hello. I can say Sean Gooden-Admond really because I am talking to you from Berlin and it's |
| 1:57.4 | lovely to talk to you. Lovely to catch up again. And Sarah Smith is back, |
| 2:01.7 | but she's not in Washington this time. Where are you now, Sarah? I'm in Warsaw and I would love to |
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