Summary
All Huawei 5G kit must be removed from the UK by 2027. The BBC's Carrie Gracie, Gordon Corera and Rory Cellan-Jones join Adam to discuss the politics, the security issues and the impact on our internet speeds and mobile technology.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. |
| 0:05.6 | Well the thing that made me go, whoa today is a report from the Office for Budget |
| 0:10.0 | Responsibility, the watchdog that looks at government spending, and it's done a massive report about |
| 0:15.5 | coronavirus, what's happened and what's to come, and it's really eye opening, and I can't |
| 0:21.4 | wait to discuss that with Laura Laura but there's also been a huge |
| 0:25.2 | decision made by the government about taking Huawei the controversial Chinese |
| 0:30.5 | technology company out of the infrastructure for delivering 5G. |
| 0:36.9 | So we're going to chew over that with some of the BBC's biggest brains. |
| 0:41.3 | But first of all, I wanted to get an update from Fergus about something he mentioned |
| 0:46.2 | on Friday, which is donating blood plasma with coronavirus antibodies in it to be given to people who might get the virus in winter. |
| 0:56.0 | Fergus, hello. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi, Edam, how are you? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm good, thanks. |
| 1:00.0 | How are you and what was the donation process like? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, with plasma, what they do is they take your blood out and then they spin it off to get the plasma. |
| 1:11.0 | The plasma is this kind of golden straw-colored fluid which hopefully contains |
| 1:16.8 | antibodies if you've had coronavirus and then they really they give you back your red cells and your white cells and your platelets back into your arm and they just take |
| 1:29.8 | 560 milliliters of this golden straw coloured fluid plasma. |
| 1:35.4 | And that then gets what, frozen and stored up somewhere to be given to somebody in a few months? |
| 1:40.7 | Yes, it gets divided in two because there's enough in 560 |
| 1:44.7 | millililators to treat two patients and that can be stored for up to two years. So |
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