Summary
Are we going through the biggest change in travel since the invention of the aeroplane? The boss of Airbnb pops in on Newscast...
Adam bumps into the absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley, who is having a very good day.
And we find out what’s going on with the Belarus-Poland border crisis (and how the implications are trickling down the political pipeline) with the BBC's Nick Beake.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Georgia Coan, Alix Pickles and Serena Tarling. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, the great thing about life being back to Westminster and cop being over and being |
| 0:09.3 | back here as you bump into all sorts of people campaigning for things. And guess who I've |
| 0:13.5 | just bumped into now? It's Joanne Lomley, how lovely to see you. |
| 0:16.8 | What an amazing coincidence. What brings you here today? |
| 0:19.8 | Well, this is a day actually of celebration. We'd come here to gather signatures, signatures |
| 0:25.1 | to take to Downing Street later on. Clearing the seabed of munitions, which have largely |
| 0:29.7 | been dumped from the Second World War is of prime importance when you're setting up offshore |
| 0:34.1 | wind farms. And at the moment they use what's called high-water detonation, which means they |
| 0:38.5 | explode the bombs, up and thing. It looks spectacular, but it wrecks the seabed. It kills the marine |
| 0:44.5 | life. It sends out toxic elements into the ocean. And worst of all, it damages the sonar of whales |
| 0:49.6 | and dolphins, who then get stranded from their pods. Quite often they beach themselves, they die, |
| 0:54.8 | they get lost, they can't mate. It's a catastrophe for them. Exactly parallel on the same shelf as |
| 1:01.0 | the high-water detonations is the thing called deflagration. That means that they fire a small cone |
| 1:07.9 | into the bomb and it burns it up from the middle. It's a hundred times less damaging to the |
| 1:13.0 | sonar of whales and dolphins and indeed to marine life in general. And there it is on offer. Now, |
| 1:17.6 | up till now people said, well, we don't know, well, we are not sure whether this is going to go |
| 1:21.2 | ahead and we've nagged and nagged and nagged and nagged. And finally, Mr George, |
| 1:25.8 | Eustace of Deferre has sent out a declaration today that this deflagration, the low-order |
| 1:32.8 | dealing with these things is the way forward. And so this is huge for us. |
| 1:38.0 | It's another celebration. Another political victory for Joanna Lomley, which you've had a few. |
| 1:42.4 | It would pretend it was only me, but it's of course all the people behind, including all the |
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