Climate (Policy) Change
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pushes back the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK from 2030 to 2035 and extends the transition from gas boilers to heat pumps.
Adam is joined by Chris Mason, Faisal Islam and the Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. And the BBC’s Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent, Marianna Spring, pops by to chat about her documentary looking at how the TikTok algorithm can create frenzies. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Josh Jenkins and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Sam Bonham and Jonathan Aspinwall.
TOPICS: 01:20 - Net Zero 31:57 - TikTok
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, on Tuesday, Chris Mason and Co. Westminster got hold of details of changes to the government's |
| 0:12.8 | environmental policies that the Prime Minister was planning to unveil at some point this week. |
| 0:17.2 | On Wednesday at 4.30pm, in a news conference that had the sort of appearance of being quite |
| 0:22.2 | hastily scheduled, the Prime Minister officially announced those changes. |
| 0:26.5 | Chris Mason asked him this. |
| 0:28.5 | Boris Johnson said your filtering businesses say you've robbed them of certainty and one |
| 0:34.0 | of your former cabinet colleagues suggests that this risk is putting you on the wrong side |
| 0:37.7 | officially. |
| 0:38.7 | Is this all because you're panicking about losing the election? |
| 0:42.0 | What did Rishi Sunak say? |
| 0:43.4 | We will find out on this episode of newscast and we'll also talk to his serving politician |
| 0:48.0 | in office who has to weigh up these very decisions. |
| 0:51.5 | All in this episode of newscast. |
| 0:53.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:55.0 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter. |
| 1:00.0 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 1:02.0 | Re-economy, lab lab lab. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the Guardian reading. |
| 1:06.0 | Tofu eating, woke her hearty. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm actually very right-wing. |
| 1:09.0 | You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle today I feel gay. |
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