Summary
The Tesla billionaire asks the Twittersphere for tax advice. But what’s the real story behind this latest move from Elon Musk?
Adam mulls over the latest from COP26, including why the fossil fuel industry has the largest delegation at the conference, with New Zealand’s environment minister, James Shaw and Jennifer Morgan from Greenpeace.
And, as the US finally opens for tourists, one couple explains why they are desperately seeking Disney.
Today’s Newscast was made by Emma Close with Rosamund Jones, Alix Pickles, Georgia Coan and Serena Tarling. The studio director was Emma Crowe.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Are you listening to this edition of Newscast on a transatlantic flight? |
| 0:08.9 | Because you can now, because from today, Monday the 8th of November fully vaccinated British travelers can go to the |
| 0:15.8 | United States for the first time since March 2020 which is fantastic news if I don't know you're a massive fan of Disney |
| 0:26.0 | theme parks and you've been wanting to go to Orlando for all that time like Ben is |
| 0:31.0 | hello Ben. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | Where are you now on your journey? |
| 0:35.0 | We're halfway through, we're at JFK Airport waiting for our connecting flight to Orlando. |
| 0:40.0 | I love it when we have a chat, live chat at an airport my favorite kind of |
| 0:43.6 | chat what was it like getting on the plane you know it was emotional we we saw the |
| 0:48.2 | British Airways and Birch Atlantic flight this morning because they were both taking off at the same time, weren't they? |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, we were in the Virgin Clubhouse, so we were out and the terrorists watching it and it was just, |
| 0:58.3 | it was amazing. |
| 0:59.3 | And how did you feel emotionally? |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, it was just like, it's been such a long time since we've been able to travel. |
| 1:04.7 | This is our fifth or sixth cancel trip. |
| 1:07.6 | So it's like we just kept pushing it back and pushing it back and we kept thinking a few weeks ago, |
| 1:11.9 | is this going to happen? and then it's like they |
| 1:13.6 | announce early November and then 8th and November and we're here. |
| 1:17.1 | Do you want to put Baca on? |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah I'll just push you over. |
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