Summary
Today, Ed Davey has vowed to lead the fight against Nigel Farage in his speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference.
Davey argued that the Lib Dems had a "moral responsibility" to challenge Reform and urged his party to embrace patriotism to speak for "Britain's decent silent majority".
Adam speaks to Chris from the conference in Bournemouth, and also interviews the Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader Daisy Cooper.
Plus, Adam is joined by Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, to discuss his new Panorama - Gaza: Dying for Food. In it, Jeremy looks at the food shortages in Gaza and allegations of war crimes which the IDF denies.
You can watch Gaza: Dying for Food here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jxm2
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| 0:21.2 | Hello, it's the end of the LibDem's annual conference in Bournemouth, |
| 0:24.1 | which means we're going to have a classic Chris Mason recording this episode of newscast |
| 0:28.2 | as they're taking down the conference and he gets on a train or a plane or a taxi or maybe he's just walking. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello, Adam. So I'm staring at a whole line of blue rectangular boxes full of wire after wire after wire. |
| 0:45.5 | And there's this kind of dance, this choreography of cables that goes from here, Bournemouth |
| 0:50.4 | on the south coast, to Liverpool for the Labour Conference starting at the weekend. |
| 0:55.1 | We're in the main kind of hall of the conference centre in Bournemouth. There is a white van |
| 1:01.8 | that was reversed through this giant gap in the wall of this hall in order to take all said wires |
| 1:07.0 | a couple hundred miles away up the motorway as yeah another conference ends and then |
| 1:12.4 | another one begins in a few days well let's turn back time to a few hours ago on Tuesday before |
| 1:18.7 | the lib Dem conference had ended and ed davy the libdem leader was giving his speech that's what |
| 1:22.7 | we'll focus on in the first half of this episode of newscast then we're going to catch up with |
| 1:26.3 | jeremy bowen who's been reporting on gaza in a edition of Panorama. But that's what you'll hear on this edition of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Got to have an apology, please. I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris surrounded by wires in Bournemouth. So, yeah, Chris, just give us a flavour of what's been going on at Lib Dem conference the last couple of weeks. |
| 2:04.7 | It's all, last couple of weeks, last couple of days. |
| 2:07.1 | It's always quite, what's the word I would use for Lib Dems, vibrant. |
| 2:11.1 | Like they like to have a good time. |
| 2:13.6 | Yeah, they do like to have a good time. |
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