China’s Forced Labour Camps
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
With calls for tighter coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, plans for the UK’s four nations to allow three households to meet are coming under strain. BBC Wales’s political editor Felicity Evans explains why there’s pressure in both directions. Branwen Jeffreys is back to tell us about the row over schools staying open before the holidays. And John Sudworth talks us through his latest investigation, which raises the worrying prospect that clothes in our shops could contain cotton picked by forced labour in China.
Studio Director: Jonathan Greer Producers: Ben Weisz, Georgia Coan Output Editor: Rick Kelsey Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. As predicted, the national treasures are starting to get the COVID vaccine, |
| 0:11.4 | especially now that it's being rolled out to GPs and not just hospitals. |
| 0:17.1 | Here's Prue Leith from Bakeoff. |
| 0:19.1 | And of course, there's a bit of a |
| 0:21.0 | Ower aspect of it, like everything in Bakeoff. |
| 0:24.0 | Pressure, just make sure it all gets in you get the goodness. |
| 0:26.5 | Have you done it? |
| 0:27.3 | All done? |
| 0:28.1 | God, I didn't even feel it. |
| 0:29.6 | Is it what you expected? |
| 0:30.8 | Well, yes, because I've been here for flu jabs |
| 0:33.0 | and I know they're very efficient |
| 0:34.2 | and I've heard that this was a very painless injection. So it was what I expected. |
| 0:39.9 | The less sensationalist way of putting that, of course, would be women who has had multiple injections |
| 0:44.9 | before just has other injection. But this is a jab like no other. So thanks, Prue, for encouraging |
| 0:53.2 | everyone to go and get the vaccine when you get |
| 0:56.1 | the email from the NHS. Plenty more to discuss on this edition of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:03.7 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:08.6 | No one's got to a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:11.2 | There have been 300,000-34-974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:18.5 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
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