Summary
Documents obtained by the BBC show the UAE wanted to discuss new fossil fuel projects with a number of countries at COP28.
The BBC’s climate editor and the journalist who got the scoop, Justin Rowlatt and Professor of Political Economy at University of Sheffield, Michael Jacobs joined Adam to discuss what this means for this week’s climate conference.
And a new pay offer has been made to consultants in England. The deputy chair of the BMA consultants committee, Dr Shanu Datta says this doesn’t mean there’s an end to strikes. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Phil Bull. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, there's going to be a big health story in this episode of newscast because |
| 0:08.8 | striking consultants in England have reached a deal with the government about their pay and conditions |
| 0:15.1 | which might mean there's no more striking which actually is the second medical |
| 0:19.6 | story today the first medical story that happened was at lunchtime I went to go and get a health check for this big NHS medical project called Our Future Health, where you go and get your blood pressure taken, your cholesterol, your weights, and they do a blood test, and importantly |
| 0:38.2 | for me, they measure your height. |
| 0:40.0 | And it turns out I'm a whole inch taller than I thought I was. |
| 0:43.2 | So that's two, massive breaking medical stories |
| 0:45.9 | in one episode of Newscast. |
| 0:48.6 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:50.2 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 0:52.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 0:53.0 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 0:55.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 0:59.0 | The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:04.4 | It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done Kia. |
| 1:08.2 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. |
| 1:12.1 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:15.3 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and we will bring you all the details of the deal |
| 1:19.5 | that has been brokered between NHS consultants in England and the government which could potentially have brought their strike action to an end. |
| 1:28.2 | But first of all, we're going to look at the has seen a cash of leaked documents which show that the United Arab Emirates proposed |
| 1:46.1 | using meetings with foreign governments to discuss the build-up to COP28, to actually, at the same time discuss business opportunities for the United Arab Emirates |
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