Summary
A new chapter begins for Afghanistan. Adam chats with the BBC’s Yalda Hakim and Secunder Kermani, who's in Afghanistan. What's it like on the streets of Kabul as the Taliban take control?
And Fergus gives us all the coronavirus catchup we needed... Vaccines, back to school and will the bank holiday festivals cause more spikes in infections?
This episode of Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with producers Caitlin Hanrahan and Alix Pickles. The Studio Manager is Nick Jones. The Editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we're back. |
| 0:06.8 | Hope you've had a good break. |
| 0:09.4 | I am very rested, which means I'm ready to do lots of newscasts and this is good news for |
| 0:14.2 | Joe who emailed saying dear Adam and Co we need your insights and expertise it's such |
| 0:18.7 | a momentous time with lots going on can you please get off the loungers or |
| 0:22.3 | wherever you are and get back to your various |
| 0:24.2 | broadcasting cupboards and sheds, A SAP, please. We're missing you all. Well, Joe, your wish is our |
| 0:29.8 | command. I've not been on any sun loungers at least not on this holiday I can't speak for the others |
| 0:35.7 | Laura's not back yet haven't seen Chris today |
| 0:39.1 | But Farragus is sitting in a cupboard in where else the Windsor Bureau. So stay tuned to catch up with |
| 0:45.1 | him. First of all let's get an update on a story that has gripped the nation. Geronimo, the |
| 0:50.8 | alpaca, has finally been put down after his owner in Bristol went to court several times |
| 0:57.9 | to challenge his positive tuberculosis test. |
| 1:02.1 | Now it has aroused some very strong passions and it's very |
| 1:06.4 | controversial as an issue but it did make me realize I don't actually know very much |
| 1:11.3 | about said Alpaca's But we've got a man who does, it's Duncan Pooler, |
| 1:16.4 | who is CEO of the British Al Paca Society. Hello Duncan. |
| 1:20.1 | Hello. So, yeah, Al Pacas, what I'm not quite sure what kind of the business around |
| 1:25.4 | Alpacas is. Why do we rear them and keep them? |
| 1:29.0 | Some people who keep them because they like them as a hobby. There's a handful of people who are kind of top breeders |
| 1:36.1 | who sell breeding stock to other people for quite good money. And then there's a growing number who use them as part of sort of businesses that face the public where they take people on what we call |
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