Breaking GB News: The Ava-Santina Interview
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
“It’s made me feel disgusting, it’s made me feel vile".
Political correspondent at PoliticsJoe Ava-Santina speaks about the comments made about her by GB News presenter Laurence Fox. He and Dan Wootton have both been suspended by the broadcaster.
And, the UK's largest untapped oil field has been approved by regulators. Adam speaks to the country manager for Equinor Alex Grant, one of the main stakeholders and Scotland Editor James Cook.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, a regular contributor to newscast who comes on to talk about what's been happening |
| 0:10.0 | in the politics news has become the news in the last 24 hours. |
| 0:15.8 | It's the political journalist Ava Santina from the politics duo website who was the subject |
| 0:20.8 | of some misogynistic comments on GB news on Tuesday night, which has seen a GB news presenter |
| 0:27.5 | and a GB news contributor suspended and the channel apologising to her, and she is going |
| 0:33.4 | to be talking all about it on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:37.2 | Newscast, newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:39.8 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
| 0:42.6 | There are many questions on things that are not related to maths. |
| 0:44.6 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 0:49.0 | The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 0:54.0 | It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, well done here. |
| 0:57.8 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. |
| 1:01.7 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:06.6 | And later on in this episode of newscast, we're going to talk about the government's decision |
| 1:10.8 | to license a new oil and gas field of the coast of Shetland, which has caused some controversy. |
| 1:17.3 | But talking of controversy on Tuesday night, Dan Witten was doing his weeknight show |
| 1:23.2 | on GB News, as usual. And as is often the way he had on as a contributor, |
| 1:28.7 | Lawrence Fox, the actor, commentator and controversialist, and actually leader of a political party. |
| 1:35.1 | And they were talking about some comments that had been made on politics live on BBC 2 on Monday |
| 1:41.5 | by the journalist Ava Santina, who reports for the website and the YouTube channel, Politics Joe. |
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